Looks like the NYPD should send out that memo again regarding photographers rights. The War on Photography website recently posted this video, which shows an NYPD officer calling in the secret service to detain this man who taking photos on a public sidewalk near the UN. The officer asks if he's ever heard of the Patriot Act, and tells him the sidewalk is federal property.
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