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Photographer shot by police who mistook camera for gun - toni-a - 09-05-2017 So is it now safer to use MFT ? at least it doesn't look like a gun https://www.dpreview.com/news/0947526878/ohio-photographer-shot-by-police-officer-who-mistook-camera-for-gun Photographer shot by police who mistook camera for gun - Rover - 09-06-2017 Well, they have their own "peculiarities" in the US... I've never lived there long enough to get to the bottom of it (nor do I care - it's just another far away country so let 'em roll their own) but I find their gun culture - which is probably at the base of this incident - rather disturbing. Photographer shot by police who mistook camera for gun - Guest - 09-07-2017 I just don't understand the mistake. It sounds like the guy had no clue what was going on so he responded with a gun. |