Such incidents lead to some interesting questions regarding the rights of photographers. Along with these examples are numerous other occasions in which photographers were temporarily detained and questioned for taking pictures of police activity or even buildings. A photographer for a newspaper in California was arrested while taking pictures of an accident scene on a public highway.
A photographer in New York was arrested for videotaping a protest in a public plaza.
Just in the last few years, some interesting stories have cropped up in the news concerning photographers. You would think that if you are in a public space and you can see something - an object, a person, an incident - then you could also photograph or film it.
