Extracts from an article entitled "Put enough cameras on the police and even the serially deferential wake up" by Marina Hyde, in today's Guardian newspaper ...
Who watches the watchmen? Or, to translate Juvenal another way: who polices the police? The answer this week was a New York fund manager, of all unlikely superheroes ... The man came forward (with his film of the incident) because "it was clear the family were not getting any answers" ...
... Not that turning our cameras on those who train theirs on us is without risk. Indeed, one might judge it fairly miraculous that the man was not forcibly disarmed of his camera phone, given that it is now illegal to photograph police ...
... it is something of a shame that certain elements of society have only recently woken up to the possibility that the police might not be the faultless, justice-dispensing force of establishment myth, and only because ... they have seen it with their own eyes ...
The full article can be read here.
Who watches the watchmen? Or, to translate Juvenal another way: who polices the police? The answer this week was a New York fund manager, of all unlikely superheroes ... The man came forward (with his film of the incident) because "it was clear the family were not getting any answers" ...
... Not that turning our cameras on those who train theirs on us is without risk. Indeed, one might judge it fairly miraculous that the man was not forcibly disarmed of his camera phone, given that it is now illegal to photograph police ...
... it is something of a shame that certain elements of society have only recently woken up to the possibility that the police might not be the faultless, justice-dispensing force of establishment myth, and only because ... they have seen it with their own eyes ...
The full article can be read here.
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