Full Colour Black

Full Colour Black are a British company specialising in photographing Graffiti left in the public domain.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Never gets old.. 😅 https://t.co/NfhROXTfvu

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Photography is NOT a crime! "Harm Reduction" aka Community Assisted Suicide in San Francisco...

Earlier today while out taking some photos I ran into my buddy @war24182236 randomly out on Market Street in San Francisco. We caught up a bit. As we were walking around together up 6th Street we ran into this operation where three parked vans were giving out free drug supplies in the Tenderloin.

I think the people in the vans must have recognized JJ because one got right into his face right away and started yelling at him -- "you can't take photos!"

JJ wasn't even taking photos, he had his phone in his pocket, but I always have my camera out and I was taking photos.

Usually when someone tells me that I can't take photos on a public street I try to politely explain to them about this thing called the 1st Amendment and I remind them that the courts have ruled that street photography is protected speech and that I actually CAN take photos on a public street.

This lady was more focused on JJ though and started yelling at him so he actually did take his phone out and started filming them. She told JJ that she was going to call security and then these two security guys came over (not the other guy in the photo) and JJ schooled them that he could take video and they didn't argue with him.

After this, as quick as you can say "fentanyl overdose" these folks hoped into their vans and closed up shop and went into hiding.

JJ wasn't going to leave though and after about 5 minutes later one of the vans pulled out and left.

With over 800 dead addicts in San Francisco last year, I see these people as part of the problem. Incentivizing addicts with free drug paraphernalia only encourages more drug tourists to come move to San Francisco where they can use their free drug paraphernalia with the cheapest fentanyl and meth in the country with a police department that won't enforce the law.

It's a death cult really. These people belong in treatment, not overdosing dead out on the streets of San Francisco.

One thing you'll notice in the drug scene downtown (and in these photos) is that a LOT of addicts are in wheelchairs. This is because before they OD and die, many of them lose their limbs and have to have amputations because the tranq they put in the fentanyl in San Francisco rots human flesh.

Anyways, here's a shot of them handing out drug supplies before they ran into their vans and hid. I'm not sure why they need to hide if they are so proud of what they are doing. I think this might be the San Francisco AIDs Foundation or Maybe Glide, I'm not sure -- the vans weren't really marked and it was hard to tell who these people were.

Whatever the case, photography is NOT a crime and here are a few photos of this situation today.

JJ posted a video up of the vans as well here: https://t.co/CtYsW8YlI0

I always like seeing and running into JJ. He has a good heart and has helped many addicts and connected people back with their family. He also does important boots on the ground citizen journalism work showing the drug epidemic in San Francisco first hand.

I wonder how much of our tax dollars go to these community assisted suicide organizations and vans?

[Full Colour Black @FullColourBlack]

#rowanatkinson says it perfectly...

[Full Colour Black @FullColourBlack]

Here in England, our government, in particular #TwoTierKeir is releasing foreign murderers and child rapists early from prison in order to imprison those who protest against foreign murderers and child rapists.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Glasgow’s response to an art installation project.

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Her: "Excuse me, you can't take pictures here.

Me: "Huh? Why not."

Her: "These people don't want their picture taken."

Me: "Ok, well I'm on a public sidewalk, I'll take pictures of whatever I want. It's my first amendment right.

Her: "You can't take pictures here."

Me: "Ok, well I'm just going to go ahead and take pictures anyways. Look at all these other people around with cameras."

Walking away from her, taking pictures, her and her goons trying to get in my face and block my camera lens with their hands. Me just turning my camera from one direction to the next as they keep scuttling around trying to block the pictures that I'm taking.

Here's the thing. These people are out here *ILLEGALLY* blocking Montgomery Street, inconveniencing tons of people. Making a racket in the middle of the intersection, theoretically enjoying their 1st Amendment free speech rights, again, illegally, meanwhile they want to deprive ME of my MY first amendment rights as a photographer.

Photography is a protected free speech right under the first amendment. The courts have ruled this over and over again.

The double standard and sense of entitlement is glaring. As glaring as her glare when she tries to stand between me at a very PUBLIC protest glaring at me in her glasses and mask blocking the ability to take photos.

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Photography is not a crime...

...blocking an intersection, or a bridge or a freeway or whatever actually is though.

Here's an album of photos that I took of yesterday's Pro Hamas protest... even though they told me I "wasn't allowed to."
https://t.co/L3nVcMz8HM

[Full Colour Black @FullColourBlack]

@JPSArtist1 Outrageous.

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

With nondisclosure agreements, legal actions and PR gatekeepers, Banksy can seem more like a corporation than an artist. But the one thing he can’t control is how he’ll be remembered. https://t.co/k7iC5d8cuE

[Full Colour Black @FullColourBlack]

We were mentioned in the @nytimes this week in a piece about the #Banksy legacy. @ScottReyburn1
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