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HDNet World Report Captures Dramatic Altercation Between Blogger and Miami Security Guards

DALLAS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- An HDNet World Report team shooting at a Miami-Dade Metrorail Station captured a dramatic altercation between a local journalist and a Metrorail security guard - a clash now at the center of the debate over whether citizens can use their cameras in public places, and videotape their own interactions with police.

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The blogger, Carlos Miller, says he was exercising First Amendment rights by videotaping at the Metrorail station, when a security guard grabbed his video camera and confiscated it. Miller then recorded the rest of the confrontation using his iPhone. An HDNet World Report camera captured the entire encounter for an upcoming story on First Amendment Rights and taping police.

Carlos Miller's iPhone footage can be found here:

http://www.hd.net/worldreport.html

"This is the type of work that earned this program an Emmy nomination," said Mark Cuban chairman and co-founder of HDNet. "The World Report crew is committed to going after the tough stories, and this is just one more example of their cutting edge work."

The segment is set to air on Tuesday, August 17 at 9:00 p.m. exclusively on HDNet.

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