Shane Bauer, a reporter in Mother Jones‘ San Francisco bureau, covering criminal justice, social justice, and human rights, was reporting on the Urban Shield police event in Oakland, including taking photographs. Bauer is a well-known journalist who spent two years imprisoned in Iran co-authoring A Sliver of Light about the event.
Bauer’s photographs documented the extreme militarization of policing as well as the way police SWAT team members think. In a tweet on Sunday he reported that his press credentials were taken away for taking ‘unauthorized photos.’ Bauer was also thrown out of an American Correctional Association meeting earlier this year because they did not like his tweeting of the event.
He published a collection of his tweets from the SWAT team convention on Storify. Below are some highlights of some of the photographs he took at Urban Shield. The SWAT Convention was widely protested and the mayor of Oakland announced they would not be coming back next year. A full report on Bauer’s visit at the Urban Shield Convention will be published by Mother Jones. Here’s what they don’t want people to see: 
