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Lawsuit claims NYPD harasses photographers
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Dec 6, 2007 9:17 PM EST
Article Source: Newsday.comadvertisement
he New York Civil Liberties Union sued the police department Thursday in an attempt to stop its officers from detaining and questioning photographers and filmmakers who take pictures of city landmarks.
The suit was filed on behalf of Arun Wiita, a 26-year-old graduate student at Columbia University who the NYCLU said was handcuffed in July after an officer spotted him photographing a Manhattan subway station.
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