Daily, I hear about cops beating people or arresting people for videoing what cops are doing.
That the police force in New Orleans is "a significant threat to the safety of the public", as the DoJ says, is obvious. But the same problems can be seen all over the South, from Miami to Mississippi to Alabama; and the same nationwide, according to Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, who wrote recently: "Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public."
Today I watched a video where a news videographer was arrested for videoing an arrest that happened in full view of the public while he was standing on public property. I also saw a man who was beaten for videoing cops while videoing and arrest. This kind of shit needs to stop. If law enforcement can video the public, the public should be aloud to video law enforcement. Who else is going to keep law enforcement in check if not the people they are charged with protecting?
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