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Right but checking credentials was okay and I assume their credentials had their name (or gathering their names was surely okay).

It was just the photography that wasn’t okay. However, what do you need a photograph for when you can just go pull up their file back at the station using the name on the credentials you just took down?



Intimidation is the point. None of this is required to check a journalist’s status.


Exactly, it wasn't necessary for law enforcement functions. It served another purpose entirely.




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