Overview
- A 70-year-old photographer, Steven Sands, was handcuffed and briefly detained by NYPD at a permitted Cardi B music-video shoot in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Monday.
- Officers issued Sands a criminal court summons for disorderly conduct and released him without a formal arrest.
- Production and law-enforcement sources say Sands bypassed police barriers and ignored orders from security and officers before he was detained.
- Sands told reporters he arrived before the star, was moved behind equipment by a guard, then tried to relocate and said, "I don't mean to be rude, but I don't care what Cardi wants," which production says escalated the encounter.
- The incident underlines recurring tensions between celebrity productions enforcing set control and photographers seeking access and may signal tighter enforcement of permit boundaries on future shoots given past security disputes involving Cardi B.