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Police officers should be entitled to NO “expectation of privacy” when on the job.
They should never have the right t keep videos private because of concerns about how they might be judged.
The law is not there to protect the police from themselves.
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The line in Marvin Gaye’s song rings in my head every time I read a story like this:
Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it makes me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we’re heading
Oh, make me wanna holler
They don’t understand
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
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Prosecutors [, who are cozy as f*** with law enforcement,] found the shooting justified and declined to charge the four officers.
Yes, I think we should know exactly how threatening these two men were being that they were somehow threatening the lives of four officers at once.
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In fact, the cameras that recorded the June 2, 2013, shooting supported testimony that Diaz-Zeferino wouldn’t obey officers’ orders to stand still and keep his hands in the air.
Um, AP, unless there’s video from other cameras not mentioned in the story, kindly explain why you feel so confident in that judgment that you abandon the usual journalistic qualifiers. The prosecutors say one thing, but the $4.7 million settlement for the family would seem to suggest another…