{"id":209,"date":"2010-06-27T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-06-27T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:43:26","slug":"photographers-protect-anarchists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/photographers-protect-anarchists\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers Protect Anarchists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_3237\"Police, in the past, have never really had much regard for the safety of the “working press” in these types of situations… I thing there is an understanding about all the risks involved on both sides. Photojournalist seem to realish in the stories ( and this scratch was when my camera was thrown to the ground by the body guard)<\/p>\n

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The fact that there were a lot of GWCs<\/strong> ( G<\/strong>awkers W<\/strong>ith C<\/strong>ameras) in the crowd, may have kept the officers from responding with the authority needed to quell things early.<\/p>\n

\"img_3212\"Or the counter argument could be made that the GWC’s<\/strong> kept the police from over reacting. At one standoff I saw, the police would have had to go through a line, several people deep, of GWCs in order to get to the “protesters.”\u00a0 Did this play into the minds of the officers in charge?<\/p>\n

Does the ownership of a camera now give you special rights?\u00a0 Does the expansion of digital cameras hurt or help in these situations?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I am not sure where I stand on this… <\/p>\n

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I just hope that the GWCs bring forth some really good images to help show who went over the line on all sides ( I was going to say both sides, but I think this is an issues that has many sides.){jcomments on}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been watching the destruction of the Anarchists unfold over the course of the last couple of days… from the safety of my living room. ( except for one excursion to the corner to buy some bread, which is were I captured these images.)<\/p>\n

One thing that stuck me was the shear number of amateur photographers in the middle of these events.<\/p>\n

\"img_3210\"It is easy to pick out the Pros vs the amatuers by their equipment and how they handled themselves.<\/p>\n

I am wondering if the number of these “innocent” participants, helped the Anarchists evade police, and actually increased the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennspecht.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}