»In which the prevalent attitude creeps up again

An Asian-looking fellow gets hauled off to the station while photographing a subway station. He is suing the NYPD:

Police sources said officers question people photographing the city’s rail infrastructure on “rare occasions,” citing instances in which law enforcement officials have identified men taking photographs of city bridges and subways as Iranian intelligence agents and suspected Pakistani terrorists who were stopped by police while taking pictures of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges.
“I was surprised and upset that I could be handcuffed on the street for taking a photograph,” Wiita said. “What was really disheartening was that I knew this has probably happened before and that it could happen again to anyone.”

This sounds all too familiar. I just got a new camera, in fact: time to try it out! (Bye the bye, I have lots of photographs of subways and bridges already.)