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    “Undoes it’s narrative” is a funny way of saying got caught lying. Almost as if unquestionably taking the police’s word was a bad thing all along.

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    Bodycams exonerate the innocent every time. They’re an absolute, indisputable record of what happened, and if you didn’t do anything wrong they’ll prove it to everyone. If you’re lying, bodycams will prove that too.

    Keep that in mind when you see police fighting tooth and nail against body cams or, when they can’t entirely prevent the use of a camera they fight to make sure they’re the only ones with access to the footage. This is because they’re a street gang, they know it, they break the law on a regular basis and rely on one another to lie. That’s what the police do. They don’t prevent crime, or we’d see that more police would lead to less crime and vice versa. They don’t solve the vast majority of crimes. They give people an illusion of safety and order, and they apply violence indiscriminately to anything outside the normal order without regard to the law. They explicitly do not know the law, and thanks to qualified immunity they are simply not responsible for their actions. This is because the people who decide what the responsibilities of the police are know that they won’t be the ones pulled out of their cars and beaten to death in the middle of the street.

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      TechDirt is adding additional information that the Reason article didn’t have, including some facts in addition to the commentary.

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      Just FYI, but reason magazine is a center of right libertarian news source owned by the Reason Foundation.

      In the past they have been highly critical of all things Urban, and were actively anti-mass transit, which I have found vexxing. Just keep that in mind when reading their media.

      https://www.allsides.com/news-source/reason

      Fun fact:

      Reason Foundation cofounder Robert Poole is an MIT-trained engineer and the author of Cutting Back City Hall.[7] The book provided the intellectual support for Margaret Thatcher’s privatization efforts in the United Kingdom.

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        It’s true. On issues of police violence, right-libertarians and progressives tend to be pretty well aligned, though. Right-libertarian authors like Radley Balko have been beating that drum for many years.

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    Bet those fuckos didn’t lose their retirement though. Nah, some other programs are going to suffer…

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    So does the 13M come from taxes or an tax-funded insurance policy? Did the premium just go up?

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    An organization should take this bodycam footage and start airing it on billboards and TV commercials in NYC. Light up Times Square with it. Put these assholes on blast.

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    id say that its weird that this is on worldnews, but the NYPD is an international organization with cops enforcing american laws in foreign countries so shrug-outta-hecks