The guy on the left -- about 5 yards short of where he fell dead with five bullets in his back --- had a broken tail light.
Michael Brown was originally busted for jaywalking.
Brown died 50 yards away from police officer Darren Wilson's patrol car, heading in the opposite direction.
Michael Brown was originally busted for jaywalking.
Brown died 50 yards away from police officer Darren Wilson's patrol car, heading in the opposite direction.
Compendium Of Pax Posts: What's Wrong With Race Relations - Hatred, Cops And The Law
City officials made the decision after an officer shot and killed a man named Walter Scott. "City officials here promised to outfit the entire police department with body cameras Wednesday, seeking to defuse tension over a graphic video showing a white officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man in the back. Their attempts to reassure the public came as footage of the incident was replaying endlessly online and on cable news, and they showed how urgently authorities are trying to avoid frenzied protests like those seen in Ferguson, Mo., last summer." Wesley Lowery and Mark Berman in The Washington Post.
Video evidence is encouraging advocates of police reform. "While cameras frequently exonerate officers in shootings, the recent spate of videos has raised uncomfortable questions about how much the American criminal justice system can rely on the accounts of police officers when the cameras are not rolling. ... As cameras become ubiquitous, the digital video is likely to become a go-to source of impartial evidence in much the same way that DNA did in the 1990s." Matt Apuzzo and Timothy Williams in The New York Times.
HEER: The killing of Walter Scott sheds light on the problem of police lying. "The police don’t always tell the truth. Police violence and police lying are two separate problems, although they also reinforce each other. Police violence flourishes in part because of the prevalence of police lying, which is rarely challenged by the criminal justice system. ... In a classic 1996 article for the Colorado Law Review, Vanderbilt Law professor Christopher Slobogin demonstrated that both 'reportilying' (falsifying police reports) and 'testilying' are pervasive in many American jurisdictions. Police perjury, Slobogin argues, occurs because 'police think they can get away with it. Police are seldom made to pay for their lying.' " The New Republic.
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