Comments | ontd_political: Color me not surprised (and INRAEGED)

4eyedblonde in ontd_political

Color me not surprised (and INRAEGED)

Oct 26, 2011 16:19

US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality

Google has been asked by a US law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from the video sharing service YouTube, the company has revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report.

Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove ( Read more... )

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jettakd October 26 2011, 20:34:00 UTC

Glad that Google is rejecting a lot of the requests for removal. Shit like that needs to stay up for the world to see, so that these bastards can be held accountable by the public.

4eyedblonde October 26 2011, 20:44:08 UTC

Google gets serious Brownie points for that.

brewsternorth October 27 2011, 00:48:26 UTC

Even if the footage has been creatively edited to be inflammatory, it still needs to be preserved at least in the near future as evidence.

romp October 27 2011, 06:59:54 UTC

yeah, I was surprised and delighted

thecityofdis October 26 2011, 20:36:24 UTC

i feel like we need a constitutional fucking amendment affirming people's right to record law enforcement officers and confrontations with them.

there is seriously no other way to protect ourselves.

chaya October 26 2011, 20:46:12 UTC

I'm inclined to agree.

4eyedblonde October 26 2011, 21:00:51 UTC

I second this.

hammersxstrings October 26 2011, 21:45:22 UTC

yup. i would use their insistence against it as proof we need it. if you're not doing anything wrong, then what's the issue? HMMMM????

god i fucking hate cops. like. there are a few decent ones, but for every one nice one you find, there's like 150 dick heads behind him

celtic_thistle October 26 2011, 20:40:35 UTC

I am so fucking shocked, let me tell you. So much for "welp the cops are always right and wouldn't use brutality and they have to answer to the people and blah blah blahh"

In before "But the cops are mostly good! My brother/dad/uncle/aunt/sister/friend is a cop and they're super nice!!!!1 It hurts my feelings when people say 'fuck the police!'"

chaya October 26 2011, 20:46:32 UTC

BUT MY UNCLE

eponaschild October 26 2011, 21:41:27 UTC

This comment plus icon made me LOL so hard, haha.

I have an uncle that WAS a cop and he resigned after witnessing brutality, trying to stop it and report it and was threatened that it would be pinned on him. :(

koken23 October 27 2011, 01:20:47 UTC

My brother is a cop. He tries so hard to be a good one, went into it for all the right reasons and he is at heart a decent young man, but...yeah. So many dickheads making it hard.

madman101 October 26 2011, 21:07:26 UTC

The Oakland police are denying they used rubber bullets last night, monday night. And yet Daily Koz shows a pic of an Oakland protestor being hit by a rubber bullet.

How about we deny that we pay the taxes that they love to eat?

hammersxstrings October 26 2011, 21:43:34 UTC

if this happened at a Tea Party Rally and a Marine was injured as bad as the one from Oakland...oh boy, we'd be in for it.

4eyedblonde October 26 2011, 21:51:05 UTC

Yep.

nekokonneko October 26 2011, 22:01:14 UTC

Pisses me off how they don't lift a finger against armed tea party rallies but will spray rubber bullets and flash grenades at unarmed OWS protesters

hammersxstrings October 26 2011, 22:18:06 UTC

what is worrying me, is if there was some sort of violent action on the part of the protesters, because then people will not take this seriously, at all. and they need to.

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