He explained to her that he didn't want to be identified personally with pictures of their car / license plate. That's reasonable on an individual level.
The problem is that in that situation he had a large amount of threatening influence, and used it to censor a journalist. There should be clear training and guidelines for how to handle this kind of thing, because letting individual guards make up rules on the spot to protect themselves isn't ok.
The problem is that in that situation he had a large amount of threatening influence, and used it to censor a journalist. There should be clear training and guidelines for how to handle this kind of thing, because letting individual guards make up rules on the spot to protect themselves isn't ok.