‘War on Terror’ goes postal
Postal Police Officer may not be the most glamorous career choice you could make (speaking as a budget analyst, I know something about non-glamorous careers!). But a postal cop in Louisiana has apparently found a way to puff up his chest a bit- he’s fighting the ‘War on Terror’!
When a journalist for Germany’s Deutsche Welle network attempted to videotape people queueing up to get their mail, he was told by postal police to leave the premises. He complied, but continued taping through a fence. The cops again told him to stop taping. When the journalist objected, pointing out the lack of signs indicating the area was in any way restricted, he was told to hand over his videotape. When he refused, he was handcuffed. He wasn’t released until he finally agreed to hand over the video.
The punch line?
The reporter says that at least twice, one of the cops told him ”that in the past, I would have gotten away with [filming] but not now with the ‘war on terror’“.
U.S. Postal Service detains journalist, keeping his videotape