Ken was out with some folks from flickr, when he had the following exchange with a cop-in-a-box while setting up a shot in Grand Central Station.

I get down on one knee and start to get my breathing just right so I can hold the camera steady enough for long exposure when I feel some one’s finger tips forcibly push my left shoulder - - my first reaction was that some was pushing me so that I would fall down. I was ready to scream and hit someone being that i was fairly close to the platforms edge.

“Hey!”, I said before realizing it was a cop. “I’m sorry you scarred the crap out of me.”

He says, “You can’t take pictures here.”

“I’m sorry.”

Read the rest of the confrontation here. Yet another police officer harassing yet another photographer for taking yet another picture on yet another subway platform.

Good on Ken for standing up for himself. Every cop in this city seems to think they can make their own laws and enforce them as desired. Screw that.

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