What You Need to Know About Body Cameras [they do not stop racism/white supremacy]
/Black & Brown People Can be Legally Executed by White Cops Anytime, Anyplace. In a system of White Supremacy White Governors, attorney generals, chiefs of police, other white cops, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and the white media will support, finance and ultimately uphold the white cop's decision or "right" to kill you. That is what recent decisions in Ferguson and NYC have taught us. The only thing a camera will do is take a picture of it - making this reality more clear to us. For example, to the extent that you are dealing with a racist postman do you think your mail will be delivered properly? This system cannot work properly or produce justice for non-whites if racist white people are controlling everything. Stop playing mind games with yourself, we must confront the actors behind these racist actions once and for all.
From [HERE] President Obama promised yesterday he would respond to the “simmering distrust” between police and the communities they serve with concrete action. Among the most substantial of his initial proposals to improve police accountability is a plan to buy 50,000 new body cameras for law enforcement agencies nationwide.
The equipment – which will cost an estimated $75 million of the $273 million Obama has pledged for the community policing initiative – will be a boon to a budding industry. It is more than seven times the revenue earned from the devices in 2013 by one major body-camera producer, Taser, and it will nearly double the roughly 70,000 cameras in use. [MORE] Would a body cam have produced justice for Eric Garner? The white cops knew they were being recorded. [MORE]