Videotaping Cops

When it comes to videotaping cops that’s cool but it isn’t enough. These police officers are now blatantly committing human rights violations and abusing their authority and just acting like gangsters and getting away with it, so we must protect ourselves effectively. It’s great that this photo depicts people capturing the cop on video but there should only be one camera present and the rest should be pointing guns towards this cop; give this cop a warning to calm down and not abuse his authority or there will be consequences. If he doesn’t calm down then exert force to protect the human rights of the victim. People protesting by holding signs about holding their hands up so cops won’t shoot them aren’t effective. Mike Brown got killed that way so everyone is going to have to take a proactive step towards protecting their life and protecting each other’s human rights. Videotaping creates accountability but it only works if the person fears retribution that will come from being videotaped. We’ve seen that there usually isn’t any retribution given to those in uniform when they violate the human rights of Black people so we’re going to have to be more proactive in preventing this from continuing, and continuing to do things that aren’t completely working isn’t the key. We must learn from what works and if necessary make modifications to protect ourselves and our human rights. If it should ever come down to needing to exercise force to protect our human rights then we must have enough sense to depart the scene afterwards and not speak on it again. If for whatever reason the issue should ever come up again then this is where the video footage of what occurred comes into play to provide an alibi and explain why alerting the authorities wasn’t viable because it was in fact the authorities attempting to abuse our human rights.