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Police, Deadly Force, Body Cameras and The Public’s Right To Know

Los Angeles, CA —We’ve become the video nation.   Whether we like it or not our images are captured hundreds of times per day.   Privacy died long ago any apparently we’ve grown accustomed to the camera invasion.  The city of Los Angeles has recently taken steps to place body cameras on every patrol officer.  Cops have become a natural target for cell phone and camera-armed citizens.   Cops are always prone to getting into confrontations primarily with dysfunctional people who are just being themselves.   That kind of interaction always makes for interesting video. The best and earliest examples of captured video of a infamous police interaction was the Rodney King case in Los Angeles two decades ago.   The video was ugly to say the least.   Cops were using batons to restrain King after a vehicle chase.   King was injured and sent to the hospital.   That unblinking and legendary video recording shot by witness George Hollid...

Technology and the American Summer Insurrection of 2013

Sanford, FL —Okay I said it.  I just don’t see this any other way.  I really hope I’m somehow wrong.  Unfortunately, history supports all of my fears.  What’s past is prologue, always.   Our nation has never been so racially divided or hypersensitive.  The George Zimmerman prosecution has not been able to deliver to the jury the venom and hype the media and the Whitehouse promised.  The allegations of a race based stalking style murder of an innocent lad have been exposed in court as pure baloney. That Martin/Zimmerman case was a simple instance of justifiable homicide resulting from the use of very necessary deadly force to stop an attack by an athletic young thug.  It is now more than clear that Trayvon Martin used a sidewalk as a deadly weapon in his effort to murder George Zimmerman by bashing out his brains.    Zimmerman will be finally cleared shortly.  The ignorant masses are not watching the trial...