One bad apple on ANY police force is one bad apple too many.
COP CAMS would prevent many or ALL of these sorts of tragedies. (To be effective, these devices MUST be “ON” during the entire shift and any officer whose device fails to capture the event under investigation or attempts to defeat the device should be summarily dismissed.)
IF THE OFFICER IN THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING HAD WORN A COP CAM, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THIS INCIDENT WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN SETTLED and Ferguson, MO wouldn’t be burning every night and Al Sharpton and the other racist agitators would have to get REAL jobs (if they could find them).
And let’s all remember that even cops and elected officials have families, any one of which could become the victim of the senseless act of some rogue cop who’s having a bad day and wants to pass it on.
Are you saying it is the officer’s fault?
Cameras, etc., are fine with me, but do you really think it would have made any difference whatever the film showed? The pro-riot constituency (some blacks, Democrats, media) would dismiss it or say it shows the exact opposite of what is really depicted. Parks & Crump just claimed their private autopsy proves Brown was shot from behind, while standing next to their own diagram that shows front wounds only. Publicly treating dishonest idiots and criminals as if they were credible citizens is the pc order of the day. Will not end well.