If you think that body cams can't be turned off, or that data can't be mysteriously lost or swiped, you're delusional.
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A video camera didn't stop Marlene Pinnock from getting beaten to the ground by a CHP officer, did it?
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Rodney King was nearly beaten to death. Video from that beating was used in the 1992 trial to illustrate how HIS body was a weapon.
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Oscar Grant was killed—KILLED—on video. The cop that killed him served less time in prison than Lauryn Hill did for evading taxes.
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Giving money to the very agencies that kill people—overwhelmingly BLACK PEOPLE—with impunity, even for body cams, is not the answer here.
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The problem here is racism, and most especially anti-blackness. A body cam isn't going to solve that.
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We already know that even well-intentioned people are less likely to feel empathy for pain when it's inflicted on black bodies.
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So, somehow, without even addressing implicit bias or racism itself, we invest in body cams? And this is cause for celebration?
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Think about Ferguson. What would a body cam have changed? I'm guessing nothing. Not. A. Damn. Thing.
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Nixon refused to appoint a special prosecutor in Darren Wilson's case. You're delusional if you think a body cam would gave changed that.
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Eric Garner's killing was caught on camera. And we don't even have word on an indictment, much less a trial.
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Tamir Rice's killing also on camera. Media's already trying to dig up criminal record, not for the man who killed him but for the 12-y-o.
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I haven't even looked at who's getting body cam contracts to profit from black pain and black death. But that's a factor here, too.
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For now, I know this: body cams will not solve shit. Dealing with racism, and dealing with anti-blackness in particular, will.
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@aurabogado Listen we've already seen that video isn't enough to convict abusive cops with Rodney King so...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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