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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:23 PM Nov 2014

If we could only make it possible to give camera phones to every minority member in America.

It really has come down to providing the best evidence early on in the process. In those areas plagued by excessive police violence, maybe the best response is to focus camera phones on them whenever they drive through the neighborhood?

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If we could only make it possible to give camera phones to every minority member in America. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2014 #1
You think it would change anything? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2014 #2
It's about beating the mainstream media. Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 #3
My rich Repuke brother thinks they all have Politicalboi Nov 2014 #4
How much will that affect things? R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2014 #5
I'm beginning to understand why people are losing hope. Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 #6
Well, we have to look forward instead of back or something like that... R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2014 #7
if you want to see a cop fly into a violent rage, ecstatic Nov 2014 #8
We are very close to providing corporal hidden cameras Baitball Blogger Nov 2014 #9

Response to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. You think it would change anything?
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:29 PM
Nov 2014

For three months, we had witness after witness state on TV that Brown turned, with hands up, and only fell forward while being shot. Not a single witness claiming that Brown 'charged' Wilson. Now, suddenly, we're supposed to believe that all of those people were lying the whole time, and that they changed their stories for the grand jury?

I do want cameras on all police, but the system is still rigged to allow the system to keep police from ever going to trial.

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
3. It's about beating the mainstream media.
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:33 PM
Nov 2014

It needs to go up on social network before they have a chance to corrupt minds.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
4. My rich Repuke brother thinks they all have
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:35 PM
Nov 2014

Obama phones, and he tells me to get one. And it's the poor people who call it Obama phones.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
5. How much will that affect things?
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 11:36 PM
Nov 2014

The Bart LEO got 2 years, including time served, for shooting a African American in the back.

How many people were recording the incident when that happened?

How many other violent incidents have been caught on video where a LEO beats a civilian to a pulp?

ecstatic

(32,712 posts)
8. if you want to see a cop fly into a violent rage,
Tue Nov 25, 2014, 12:10 AM
Nov 2014

pull out your camera phone and start recording. Even if you survive, your phone probably won't. Cams need to be hidden to be effective.

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