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Where are we headed as a society if we all are now forced to justify why we are doing what we are doing just because some guy in a uniform asks?

I guess that depends on what you are doing and saying. If he was really concerned about suspicious objects in the park wouldn't he have immediately identified himself and layed out his suspicions to the first authority figure to come along? Wouldn't he have been actively seeking one out?

Instead he was evasive and antagonistic. What is a cop supposed to think when that is coupled with a report that he was photographing equipment and taking notes?

"What is a cop supposed to think when that is coupled with a report that he was photographing equipment and taking notes?"

Who cares what the cops think? They aren't supposed to detain people unless they have a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person in question is about to commit a crime.

We have the right to take photographs. We have the right to ask questions. And we have the right to expect that we will not be illegally detained (and this WAS an illegal detention) based on the asking of seemingly silly questions or the taking of seemingly suspicious photographs.