On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:41:18 +0100, "Steve Walker"
wrote:
>Mike Ross wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 12:40:25 -0700 (PDT), Webmanager_CritEst
>> wrote:
>
>>> Sandra Moodie claims four plain-clothes officers stopped her son
>>> Jordan, 14, as he was heading home from school in Tulse Hill, South
>>> London, while still in his uniform.
>>>
>>> She said: "One told him, 'Smile for the camera'.
>>
>> Police have every right to take photographs of public, in public.
>> Public have right to say 'sod off', cover faces, and decline to
>> cooperate with photography.
>
>True, but a child has perhaps been brought up to assume that an instruction
>from a police officer should be obeyed. It's sad that we can no longer
>teach children this without a dozen caveats about civil liberties and abuses
>of power.
If 18-year-olds were given citizenship training courses for three
months, they'd learn about their civil liberties. Maybe then more
would challenge the police over excessive harrassment - provided they
aren't known as troublemakers, of course.
MM |