Wow, according to The British Journal of Photography, security guards from private security firm G4S recently ran out and harassed photographers taking pictures of the Olympic site from public land, going as far as shouting at them, grabbing the cameras and pushing them. The guards' manager approached the photographers, explaining that they had been trained to deter people from taking photographs, whereafter the photographers asked for police to attend, who confirmed that the photographers behavior was entirely lawful.
“The guards are very poorly trained by G4S,” claims Hoffman. “The blame should be on G4S and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games whose penny-pinching attitude and contempt for the media is already causing us problems and is certain to cause us a great deal more problems unless we take a stand.”
(Photo of the hi-vis army, courtesy of J@ck!, CC BY 2.0)
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