Via: Infowars
A young photographer was accused of being a threat under the Terrorism Act and eventually pushed down a flight of stairs by London police after he refused to stop photographing officers and cadets during a public parade.
Jules Mattsson, a 16-year-old freelancer student from Hackney, east London, was ordered to identify himself and stop taking images of the march on Armed Forces Day, this past Saturday.
For his own protection, Mattsson recorded the exchange with police on his mobile phone.
The audio provides evidence of yet another case in which officers are caught inventing imaginary laws, bandying around the Terrorism Act, and forcefully demanding that the public abide by their orders, when they have no legal right to do so.
Officers initially claim that Mattsson needs parental permission to capture images of the cadets who are minors. When Mattsson corrects the officer, noting that there are no restrictions on photographers in public spaces, the officer then claims that it is against the law to photograph police and members of the armed forces.
As the police continue to prevent the student from taking photographs and demand ID, he repeatedly asks them under what law he is being detained.
Eventually one officer replies "We don’t have to have a law."
Following continued declaration that it is his right to photograph in a public space and that he should be allowed to get on with his work, Mattsson is informed by another officer that he is now "considered a threat under the Terrorism Act".
As officers forcefully ushered him away from the parade, Mattsson says he was pushed down a short set of stairs and detained for "breaching the peace" until the parade passed.
Listen to the exchange:
Don't you just love camera phones.. The more they sell the more the police have to assume they being filmed and catch out those who only join as an ego boost and just enjoy giving orders to feel superior.
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