Sunday, April 22, 2012

DHS monitor journalist's FB page, arrest him at action

MDPD’s Homeland Security Bureau Was Monitoring My FB Page Hours Before My Arrest

And many more insightful details obtained through a public records request of emails


"It also included the following statement about me.
Carlos Miller is a Miami multimedia journalist who has been arrested twice for taking pictures of law enforcement.  He has publicly posted on social networks that he will be taking pictures today in order to document the eviction.
The email makes it clear that the Homeland Security Bureau was monitoring my Facebook page since before my arrest – not that I have an issue with that considering I have my profile set to public.
But it also makes it clear that Perez should have known exactly who I was when she singled me out from a horde of other journalists documenting the eviction and had me arrested.
Perhaps that is the exact reason why she had me arrested."

MDPD’s Homeland Security Bureau Was Monitoring My FB Page Hours Before My Arrest