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Blogger says he was threatened with arrest for handing out flyers at Google/MBTA lovefest

Jonathan Kamens reports an MBTA cop threatened him with arrest for trying to give reporters at this morning's Google Maps/MBTA press conference at South Station flyers about incorrect bus-route information at mbta.com.

Although the building is publicly owned, it is managed by a private company, a representative of which told Kamens he couldn't exercise the First Amendment without a permit. A few minutes later, a T cop told him to knock it off or she'd have to take him away, he says.

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That's the way to handle things, threaten people with arrest for basic tresspassing (at worst). Then again these are the same MBTA police who tell me photography on the T isn't allowed, even though their own website has their photography policy posted on it which clearly states it is..

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