Pushing Suspect arrested ! And Confess's !
http://www.washingtonpost.com/photographer-on-nyc-subway-death-i-dont-know-what-i-couldve-done-more/2012/12/05/fcf89fd4-3ef0-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_video.html
Flash photography is illegal on NYC subways also, as are lights, and reflectors, tripods etc ... etc... Photography (
Non - Flash) is permitted, as long as it does not interfere with @ 100 safety rules spelled out in detail by the NYC Transit System laws. If a cop would tell you to stop taking photos and videos "in a public location" you would have to comply, and your camera equipment could be confiscated "In a Public Area" at any time that it is deemed unsafe, suspicious, or "Just At The Officers Discretion. Your permitted right can be taken away without notice, at an officers discretion. The word: "Permitted" does not give someone the "Absolute Right" to fire off
49 rapid fire flash pictures, blinding the subway operator, as what happened in this case. Which happened on NYC Transit Property, as the public station area
is NYC Transit property.
The photographer (Abbasi) said he fired off his flash 49 times. "
If you look carefully into the eyes of the conductor you see two lights," Abbasi continued. "
I think those are my flash lights that are being reflected."
Photographers seem to believe that the loose terminology: "
Permitted" gives them "
Absolute Rights" to photograph; and this is not the case, as you can be stopped from photography in "Public Places". It seems that Private Property, and Public Areas on NYC Transit Private Property is a finely drawn line.
On many, many occasions photograpers on NYC public property have been detained, arrested, and charged with disorderly conduct, and interfering with operations, and disrupting access/egress. In most cases the photographic images are forcibly deleted by officers, who conficate the equipment.