I get the whole “keep police accountable” angle, so feel free to keep recording. But as a general rule, how many times do people stand by and watch incidents unfold and do nothing but record or watch and let someone lay around seriously injured, and I’m not even talking specifically about law enforcement. This isn’t asking people to not record enforcement contacts or anything like that, it’s directly in response to incidents where people needed medical assistance and rather than call 911, people recorded and did nothing to help.
Er, yeah. Interfere with police and you'll end up arrested or shot. No thanks. Obviously the examples Skizzo highlighted would be common sense (i.e. helping someone in obvious distress) but you can understand why Twitter would ridicule this message.
You are correct regarding the more extreme injuries, accidents, etc., there’s a perverse voyeurism that exists in the public, but there’s a part of this that smacks of not wanting police to be recorded for the sheer fact that more police misconduct is being illuminated. It benefits the police on both fronts & the cynic in me sees it more for the wanting of misdeeds to be less broadcasted.
I get that skeptical part, especially since there’s plenty of videos that have made the rounds with officers being aggressive towards people filming. The examples used in the original post were all highlighted with examples of extreme injuries, and not in relation to a traffic stop. But either way I think we can agree that filming is fine for documentation and transparency…but when someone needs help, put the fecking phone down and call.
That doesn’t sound like something Twitter would do.
Agree, but we both know that we will never get to that nirvana. Voyeurs gonna voyeur.
Everyone should carry a burner phone for 911 calls like that and then you wouldn’t even lose any street cred with your Twitter friends if they found out you called the cops.
There are a lot of people in the US who will (perfectly reasonably) believe that calling the cops considerably increases their chances of being shot and killed, regardless of the circumstances.
I mean yeah, sure. People could still stop recording and help someone and not call 911 too. Someone got knocked out? Better record them seizing up and post it for those views.
Yea no argument with all that at all.
That smugly punchable face might not be grinning in the not too distant future.
it’s an oddly “yeah I did it, so what?” Expression he has going on there.
The female Taser instructor?
And he smacks of Colin Cowherd.
I was going to ask if we're sure he's not just a whistle blower?
That's murder. What a sociopath, that last shot. Just to make really sure he killed that guy in a mobility scooter who he was shooting from behind.
Oh they do. Hence "feck the police" culture, ACAB, etc.
Cowardly Killers, are these people meant to Protect and Serve? Something has gone very wrong in America.
Just saw this story on BBC News... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59439798
Sociopaths.
Thats a fecking execution, cold blooded murder. No two ways about it. fecking animals.
Footage in the link I posted I think. Work computer won't let the video play.
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Workblocked myself.
