if you want to pretend to be a journalist, you need to at least ask the right quesitons, most importantly NAME, ID #, ask to see the law that shes enforcing as all officers need to be informed about the laws they are enforcing...
You weren't on the public sidewalk. This is pretty obvious from the video. You were within the property lines of the Federal Reserve. At the end of the video you cross onto the public sidewalk. If you had been on this, they could not have asked you to leave. Also, you were resting your camera on one of the security pylons. Its conceivable your camera might have destroyed the pylon if it had a small shaped charge in it, and then a truck behind you could have penetrated the perimeter, gone up the stairs, and detonated in the building.
Sometimes security personnel overstep their bounds; in this case she did not.
I was only shooting the building. Not a story. I didn't want to give her a hard time since I wasn't after a story. But, I was on the sidewalk, handheld filming, not on the pylon. The cut in the film is where I walked over to her after she shouted, "Hey, turn that camera off". Also, it isn't a federal law that you can't film federal building exteriors. They have to right to ask you what you're doing, but not stop you. And the Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve. And they have their own police force. That's interesting...
You're not getting it. You were not on a public sidewalk. There are two colors of sidewalk paving, one is the orange-ish brown surrounding the security bollards, the other, is the normal grey paving that is visible as you walk away from the scene at the end. If you had taken several steps back, you would have been on public land.
This is a common mistake. Any security service, even private, has the right to ask you to stop filming if you are on the property they are charged with protecting. This happens in NY all the time. A large public plaza, is actually often private property, but "open" to the public. Building security can ask you to stop filming.
Furthermore, if you were shooting B roll for any commercial or professional purpose, assumedly as a second unit of some sort, you legally have to have a permit, and many municipalities require $1 million insurance, etc. Contacting their PR department wouldve been SOP for a production company as well. Other considerations aside, without these precautions should someone have gotten injured on the shoot, it could become messy legally.
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