Yes, there are numerous instances of U.S. Law Enforcement officials giving on-the-spot verbal orders forbidding photography & video-recording for unconstitutional reasons. Such incidents are available for review on YouTube.

But the reason I’m posting a response is because of one particular sentence that jwn wrote, highlighted above in boldface. I admit that I have, verbally only, made such remarks to a friend or very small group of friends in the past (and yes, I am caucasian,) but self-restraint would prohibit me from writing such a sentence publicly, unless there was a point in stating the race, religion, or ethnicity of a particular individual which was pertinent to the story.

I am not so much scolding jwn as I am reminding him that under many circumstances, "P.C." is not a dirty word. I wouldn’t be surprised if more than one Hog would take serious exception to jwn's apparent need to convey an individual stranger’s race in an anecdote that has nothing to do with race. Or does it, jwn? Perhaps you inadvertently forgot to include some pertinent context that you meant to share with us?

To the OP, please understand that I am NOT trying to hijack your topic, but I cannot let that remark in its present form go unaddressed.

P.S. For those WHITE American "conservative-minded" individuals who are contemplating a negative response to the preceding, such as that I'm being too PC or that I should mellow out, $crew you. It is a mindset that we all need to get rid of, no matter who the President of the United States is!

Not been thrown out from a best place, yet.

Been told to cease and desist from one place. This was at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. They don't allow flash photography. Took a photo of Van Gogh's painting of his old pair of shoes with flash. The anti-flash police approached and reminded me of the no-flash photography rule and the next time means, "You're out of here." (Well, not exactly in those words but close.) Needless to say, I immediately clicked the auto-flash to off. I had my point and shoot Panasonic Lumix zs50 at that time which if I may say, took decent photos even without flash.

Photography is intrusive. I start from that fundamental. Accordingly, per situation, I ask permission to take pictures. Some places have no one to ask.

But get this: Several years ago, while in Oxnard, California, I visited a public roadside static display of aircraft and missiles in Point Mugu Missile Park near the Point Mugu military base. I took several pictures of these old aircraft.

Soon, a security patrol officer showed up and asked me to identify myself. The security guy said another had reported me out of a concern that I was photographing base buildings in view from the static display. I told the guy the buildings looked uninteresting. I was just taking pictures of the old aircraft.

Nevertheless, he asked me to move on. I did so, heading south on State Highway 1, with the security patrol following me for several miles.

Yet, I did manage to acquire some decent pictures of military hardware. See attached pictures.