Well-known aerial photographer George Steinmetz—a frequent contributor to National Geographic—has accused the NYPD of 'petty press intimidation' after he was given a citation and had his drone confiscated while documenting mass burials on New York's Hart Island.
It's common knowledge that the Giottos Rocket Blowers and the TSA don't get along. In the past we've told you to just leave it at home unless you want it confiscated with no more reason than "it looks like a bomb." But the reason photographer and Canon Rumors forum user Surapon got was a whole lot more entertaining than that.
What do a loaded gun, a stun gun disguised as a pack of cigarettes and an inert grenade all have in common? Pictures of all of them are to be found on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) new Instagram account, where the government agency is doing its best to show the public the kinds of dangerous things its employees are confiscating on a daily basis.
DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier (left) and Earl Staley (right) Well, that didn’t take long. Just one day after Washington …
On Memorial Day 2011, Narces Benoit witnessed and filmed a group of Miami police officers shooting and killing a …
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