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Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023 by hgsgm on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:20PM (#34305019)
Assault, camera or no, is deserving of a self-defense response. What if was a knife or gun, not a camera? They look similar. I'm not going to wait until I'm bleeding out to find out.
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Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023 by saagarjha on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:22PM (#34305044)
Are you a cop?
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Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023 by akerl_ on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:18PM (#34305516)
What camera do you use that looks like a gun?
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Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023 by ovao on Sunday January 08, 2023 @09:56PM (#34306163)
> they look similar

Insofar as they’re both…objects?

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Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023 by anigbrowl on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:14PM (#34306281)
They don't need to. While it's unlikely to happen to you, people have in fact been assassinated by others who they believed to be a regular camera crew:

https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/bindra....

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