[Hemingway's Ghost]

For a criminal (he had a record) with prior involvement with drugs to be on the scene of a raid by narcotics detectives, taking pictures, leads to the reasonable suspicion that the pictures were intended to be used to “blow the cover” of the undercover officers, which would have endangered their lives.

All that stuff may sound compelling, but it isn't germane to this case. The plain fact of the matter is that a person has every right to photograph whatever is happening in public. Period. It doesn't matter who that person is, why that person is there, etc. If the thing is going down in public, it has no reasonable expectation of privacy, and a person with a camera can snap away until the cows come home.

[bird4four4]

When in public we must accommodate being under surveillance at all times, dash cams, red light cams, gas station cams, mall cams, google earth, gps tracking, etc.

Cops while in public must never be recorded, photographed or question with any suspicion. Got it.

If the cops were undercover, how did this guy even know he was taking photos of cops? He sees people busting into a house in his neighborhood and takes pictures of it. Seems reasonable to me.