Over the past weekend I was in Washington, DC doing some sight-seeing on the mall (where all of the monuments are). I snapped this photo of a cop yelling at some guy on the street handing out pamphlets. The cop was pretty much a real jerk about it; according to him it’s illegal to hand out pamphlets in a federal “park”, though I don’t really see what the big deal was. The guy wasn’t bothering anyone and was exercising his right to free speech by handing out the pamphlet.
Nick Diakopoulos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Communication, Northwestern UniversityDirector
Computational Journalism Lab
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