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?WAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY? REACHES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: OSU backtracks in arrest of ?Lantern? photograp?

By Glenn Reynolds

“WAR ON PHOTOGRAPHY” REACHES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: OSU backtracks in arrest of ‘Lantern’ photographer. “Until cooler heads prevailed yesterday, Ohio State had soared to breathtaking heights over a meadow muffin, beginning by handcuffing and detaining a student news photographer who was chronicling the roundup of two escaped cows. Alex Kotran was doing his job as a photographer for The Lantern, OSU’s student-run newspaper, on April 21 when campus Police Officer William Linton ordered him to move along, then handcuffed him. The officer arrested the photographer presumably because Kotran crossed a crime-scene line. In truth, there being no crime-scene tape, any line drawn was not only invisible but arbitrary as well.”

Dopes. They deserve humiliation, and a lawsuit. Plus this: “Shame on Police Chief Paul Denton for not telling Linton, ‘Put your gun away, Barney. This is Mayberry, not Miami Vice.’ . . . Shame on a university whose inaction suggested that it cared so little about the First Amendment that it would not even rise to protect a photographer to whom it paid nothing for the gathering of its news.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).