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Cop-watchers are now YouTube celebrities. They’ve changed how police work
- justin66 3y agoIt speaks volumes about American law enforcement that this behavior doesn't just get a cop immediately fired: Reyes sometimes supplements his own video with police body-camera footage of the encounters, obtained through public records requests. An officer in Danbury, Conn. was suspended for nine days because of footage in which he says Reyes would have been “dead” with his teeth knocked out if police had encountered him in an earlier era. An attempt to infringe constitutional rights combined with a death threat. Take a few days off!
- thefurdrake 3y agoAre there apps that stream the video to a safe location remotely? I mean, obviously things like twitch and tiktok do that, but what if I want the videos stored privately for later review? Also: It seems clear to me that recording should be allowed, but I really don't think these people should be permitted to do things like physically/verbally interfere with the police interacting with someone or shining lights in their faces during nighttime while they're actively investigating. The people doing this are going to prompt and justify more aggressive and dystopian restrictions.
- gorlilla 3y agoThe ACLU has their Mobile Justice app[0]. [0]: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...