Thank goodness for cameras

[crimresearch]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=6&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_el_pr/bush_protester

"Mounted patrol officer Rita Harden testified that Scott had resisted and had run across the street. A videotape of the confrontation showed that Harden used her horse to bump Scott into the street, but it never showed him running away.

Police testified that they asked both Bush supporters and Scott to move, but the video and still photographs contradicted that claim..."
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Anyone know a good attorney? I'm guessing that Mr. Scott is going to be coming into a large sum of money very soon, and I'm not talking about the JREF prize.

[merphie]

Originally posted by crimresearch
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=6&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_el_pr/bush_protester

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Anyone know a good attorney? I'm guessing that Mr. Scott is going to be coming into a large sum of money very soon, and I'm not talking about the JREF prize.

Ouch. You know its stuff like this that makes me curious about how many other innocent people are found guilty. Memory has shown to be not as reliable as once thought and yet a police officer's testimony is accepted as absolute proof.

Some say that having a video camera on every street corner will lead to "big brother". I have to asked if maybe it will prevent "Big brother"?

[UserGoogol]

Depends on who controls the cameras, I suppose.

[Beerina]

The camera works both ways, though.

Real TV showed an incident where police were getting involved in a group of protesters who were getting out of control. There is a scuffle, and all the protestors ("naturally") claim the police threw the first punch. Oh the outrage! Those evil police.

Tape showed the protester actually initiated it.


If I were a police officer, I would want tape capturing everything I did in any incident.

[crimresearch]

Beerina is right. It is a two edged sword.

There was an uproar in police circles over the introduction of dashcams, which has greatly reversed once incidents of officers being cleared by tape surfaced.
On the other hand, Diop Kamau still isn't regarded too highly in some quarters for his tactic of videotaping police in the performance of their job.

[merphie]

Originally posted by crimresearch
Beerina is right. It is a two edged sword.

There was an uproar in police circles over the introduction of dashcams, which has greatly reversed once incidents of officers being cleared by tape surfaced.
On the other hand, Diop Kamau still isn't regarded too highly in some quarters for his tactic of videotaping police in the performance of their job.

Well someone still gets saved in the process. An Officer I know was sued for racial profiling. This was not the case as his dash camera proved that her story was completely made up.

[Tony]

That cop needs to be fired and charged with perjury.

[epepke]

Originally posted by Beerina
The camera works both ways, though.

"Both ways" meaning that they help exonerate the innocent whether the innocent are cops or civilian scum?

It's sad but not entirely unexpected that the "ways" should automatically be seen as cops vs. civilians rather than innocent vs. violators.

[merphie]

Originally posted by Tony
That cop needs to be fired and charged with perjury.

What cop?

[Snide]

Originally posted by merphie
What cop? The Nashville Mountie. And I agree with Tony.