Peacefully photographing police

Photojournalist Mannie Garcia is currently involved in a federal civil rights lawsuit in which he was arrested in 2011 unlawfully for taking photos of a police encounter and his camera and images were seized.

 "The Justice Department told the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in its filing today that it upholds an individuals' 1st, 4th, and 14th Amendment rights to peacefully photograph police as they are performing their official duties in a public place, and that their rights have been violated when police seize such recordings without a warrant or due process. "

Read the article, via the National Press Photographers Association here:
https://nppa.org/node/42647

The original Justice Deparment's Statement of Interests can be found here:
https://nppa.org/sites/default/files/Garcia_DOJ_SOI_03-04-13.pdf