"Releasing the footage might harm their reputations."
Don't you just station your troops in a different district and call it a day?
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
515 points (98.9% liked)
News
23274 readers
3085 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
If enough "dangerous" body camera footage got out, someone might finally do something about it.
I don't know anything about this, so forgive me if I'm being ignorant, but is there some way to hack the footage and post it online?
There's always a way. It'd likely be through social engineering rather than technical means. All comes down to having a Snowden-like person willing to put themselves at risk of prosecution to pull it off.
the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might damage officers’ reputations.
RPD attorney Sherita Walton said that the raid was “valid on its face” and insisted that none of the officers did anything wrong.
State Bureau of Investigation agents confused Abboud with a neighbor who is also of Arab descent—the police refused to pay for the damage
Man, these cameras sure sound dangerous.
I mean, what are the poor police supposed to do? Not be a bunch of cunts? That's not why they got into this job!
It's very dangerous for them to expose their complete and repeated incompetence to the public. One of these days the public might even think that cops might be capable of doing something wrong.
Yep. Dangerous. For them. Color me shocked
it will be fucking dangerous, yes. Professional suicide, even! And I like being the law, cuz it means you ain't.
Nobody has written a hit song called "Fuck the Fire Department!"
Lol made me imagine firemen standing next to a burning house and drenching the one next to it with their hoses.
All Houses Matter
Firefighters pull up to a black family's home, burn it down, and charge them with arson.
They did, but - if you listen to it, you'll find that your point still stands. :D
(I suspect the song is ^not^ actually about the Fire Department.)
I said a "hit song".
If you'd listen to it, you'd find I wasn't disagreeing with you.
Heh. There's been case studies of that literally happening, but it's always been one member likes fire too much, not systemic.
"This is fine..." absolutely killed me.
Thanks for this. It's on spotify too :)
view more: next ›