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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Buchanan: Body Cameras ‘Libel And Slander’ America
Speaking to J.D. Hayworth on Newsmax TV, Pat Buchanan said forcing use of body cameras is like blaming white cops for being instigators, when its the people they confront who are.
And so for him, body cameras are the governments way of saying cops are to blame for lethal violence. Buchanan said, That is a libel and a slander on America, and a libel and a slander on police.
http://www.alan.com/2014/12/08/pat-buchanan-body-cameras-libel-and-slander-america/
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)They're not showing you what cops are doing, by and large. They're showing you the people with whom they're interacting. The ones they're 'confronting' in his parlance. So how is keeping a record of what the other people do a 'slander and libel' on police?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Then the cops shoot a person they think is holding a gun and it turns out to be an inhaler? Then what? They might actually start indicting cops and the next thing you know there is accountability. Even worse it might cut into their ability to grift from the public they are supposed to serve.
spanone
(135,795 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)So that every time one of these "instigators" starts something, the cop will be vindicated. (Hey, I'll even grant that the number of cops body cameras would vindicate from false charges will be non-zero.)
Archae
(46,301 posts)Most of the Nixon goons have died.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)When the dash camera did not see the policeman being attacked the body camera did. This should make it easier, everyone will know they are being video. I don't think it will stop all the problems, they still have lots to get the dumbest crooks show.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)If we want to hang Christmas ornaments off of them it is our prerogative as the owners of our society and government. If they don't like it they are free to seek their careers elsewhere.
So much for Mr. Buchanan's paeans to small government. Hypocrite.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)about what actually happened would be answered.