NYCLU Sues NYPD Over Alleged Harassment

The New York Civil Liberties Union is doing their part in the war on terrorism.

Apparently there is nothing they won't do to assist terrorists.

New York City sued for harassing photographers

New York City police officers need better training to distinguish between law-abiding citizens who snap pictures of city landmarks and those suspected of plotting terrorism, a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the New York Civil Liberties Union said.

The lawsuit was filed against the city and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on behalf of Arun Wiita, 26, a Columbia University graduate student of Indian descent who said he was handcuffed and detained after a police officer spotted him snapping pictures near a Manhattan subway station in July.

I guarantee these jerks would be the first one filing dereliction of duty lawsuits against these same officials if a bomb goes off.

So what specifically was this Wiita fellow doing?

Wiita had undertaken a project to photograph all 468 subway stations and their surrounding streets and post them on a Web site.

But the humiliation of being held in handcuffs for almost half an hour had convinced him to scale back the project, he said.

"Most reasonable people would say that you shouldn't be able to slap handcuffs on someone just because they're holding a camera near a New York City subway station," Wiita said.

In other words, Wiita was photographing the buildings and approach/escape routes and posting them on the web. I think most reasonable people would say Wiita was doing a scouting project for potential terrorists.

And the NYCLU is doing everything they can to make that happen.

It's not as if Al-Qaida hasn't thought already about attacks on the NYC subways.

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