Death Squads, Amerikan Style

If cops aren’t shooting us dead, they’re planting evidence to “find” at crime-scenes. Fortunately, Officer Genius seems not to have understood how body-cameras work, so he inadvertently taped his assistance to the prosecution: “Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, but without audio.” Ergo, the device was silently recording when, “during a drug arrest in January,” Genius “plac[ed] a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash-strewn lot. … the officer [then] walks to the street, and flips his camera on. ‘I’m gonna go check here,’ the officer says. He returns … Continue reading Death Squads, Amerikan Style