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Robinson Meyer writes in The Atlantic that in the past year, after the killings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, many police departments and police reformists have agreed on the necessity of police-worn body cameras. But the most powerful cameras aren’t those on officer’s bodies but those wielded by bystanders. We don’t yet know who shot videos of officer officer, Michael T. Slager, shooting Walter Scott eight times as he runs away but "unknown cameramen and women lived out high democratic ideals: They watched a cop kill someone, shoot recklessly at someone running away, and they kept the camera trained on the cop," writes Robinson. "They were there, on an ordinary, hazy Saturday morning, and they chose to be courageous. They bore witness, at unknown risk to themselves."
“We have been talking about police brutality for years. And now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is,” tweeted Deray McKesson, an activist in Ferguson, after the videos emerged Tuesday night. “The videos over the past seven months have empowered us to ask deeper questions, to push more forcefully in confronting the system.” The process of ascertaining the truth of the world has to start somewhere. A video is one more assertion made about what is real concludes Robinson. "Today, through some unknown hero’s stubborn internal choice to witness instead of flee, to press record and to watch something terrible unfold, we have one more such assertion of reality."
Update: NBC News has identified the cameraman as Feidin Santana.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @11:38PM
Sky is grey here.
You must be biased. Please visit an eye Dr.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @12:33AM
You're too clever for the rest of us - go to the top of the class.
Just remember that the top of the special class is still below the average class, dipshit: sky is blue, clouds are grey.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @05:46PM
The sky is whatever's above you. For some, its blue, for some its grey, for some its half blue and half red with orange and pink streaks near the horizon, and for some its black with lots of little lights speckled in it. The since we live on a living planet, and not everyone is consolidated in the same place, the sky is going to be different for different people at different times.
And even if you want to be technical, the cloudless daytime sky isn't blue, its colorless, its just that the nitrogen and such in it diffracts the light such that it appears [sciencemadesimple.com] blue.