Not just the USA. I was threatened with police when I took a photo of the electronic exchange rate display in a bank in Guildford, because they said they were 'yesterdays' and refused to honour them.
I was threatened with being thrown off a First Western train for taking photos of the filthy disgusting seat and surrounding litter and filth where I was expected to sit.
And in France I was told I was not allowed to take a photo of a loose drain cover on a public road which had caused €4000 of damage to a car I was driving, and was threatened with violence.