Not in the past for sure. Looks like that might change if we keep taking action.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 4:45 PM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > I also wonder what happens should Nest or some other security system > capture a video of police brutality. 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I wonder >> what apps are being used or developed to work around it. >> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 11:38 AM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> In 2008, Steve Jobs had an assignment for a small team of engineers in >> Cupertino: Make the iPhone record video. After seeing that people liked >> taking photos with the first iPhones, he wanted to add moving pictures. A >> year later, Apple released the iPhone 3GS, the first iPhone to record video. >> >> About 10 years and 10 iPhone models later, 17-year-old Darnella Frazier >> found herself standing on a sidewalk in Minneapolis, swiping on her purple >> iPhone 11 lock screen to launch the video camera as fast as possible. >> >> She hit the red circle and for the next 10 minutes and 9 seconds she held >> her phone as steady as she could, capturing George Floyd, a black man >> crying for his mother as his face was smashed into the pavement by white >> police officer Derek Chauvin. >> >> “I opened my phone and I started recording because I knew if I didn’t, no >> one would believe me,” Ms. Frazier said in a statement provided by her >> lawyer, Seth Cobin. >> >> A day later, May 26, she opened up the Facebook app, and tapped the video >> of Mr. Floyd to upload it. The world now knows his name. >> >> Over the last decade, while tech companies were focused on marketing >> megapixels and multiple lenses to better record pastries and puppies, >> smartphone cameras found a greater purpose. >> >> “This is our only tool we have right now. It is the most effective way to >> get us justice,” Feidin Santana told me. Mr. Santana used his smartphone in >> 2015 to film a police officer killing Walter Scott in South Carolina. >> >> “The smartphone is a weapon that tells the story. This is going to tell >> what happened to me, this is what will tell what took place,” said Arthur >> Reed, whose organization Stop the Killing surfaced an anonymously filmed >> video of the 2016 killing of Alton Sterling by a police officer in Baton >> Rouge, La. >> >> Many white Americans, myself included, failed until recently to grasp one >> of the biggest impacts of the smartphone: its ability to make the world >> witness police brutality toward African-Americans that was all too easy to >> ignore in the past. We could now see, with our own eyes, the black sides of >> stories that were otherwise lost when white officers filed their police >> reports. >> >> For this column, I looked back at a decade of incriminating cellphone >> video, and tracked down many people who bravely used their phones to >> capture brutality and tragedy on American streets. >> >> 2009 - Oscar Grant >> >> A sequence of full-frame screengrabs from a video of the killing of >> Oscar Grant on January 1, 2009. Jamil Dewar recorded it on a flip phone. >> 2015 - Walter Scott >> >> A sequence of full-frame screengrabs from a video of the killing of >> Walter Scott on April 4, 2015. Feidin Santana recorded it on a Samsung >> Galaxy S5. >> 2020 - George Floyd >> >> A sequence of full-frame screengrabs from a video of the killing of >> George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Darnella Frazier recorded it on an iPhone 11. >> >> All said some variation of the same thing: It’s not that these incidents >> never happened before, it’s that we have the ability to capture proof and >> expose it widely—now, more clearly and indisputably than ever. The >> smartphone’s proliferation and evolving user experience is partly to thank, >> though through this we’re also discovering its limitations. >> >> Once upon a time, capturing bystander video was about being in the right >> place, at the right time, with the right equipment. >> >> That is the story of George Holliday on March 3, 1991, brand-new Sony >> Handycam in hand as he stood on his balcony with a view of Los Angeles >> police officers beating Rodney King. The footage is shaky, the bodies are >> hard to make out, the helicopters drown out the screams yet it was enough >> to set off what Mr. Holliday calls “the first viral video.” >> >> It’s also the story of Karina Vargas, who had her Fujifilm Finepix >> digital camera the night of Jan. 1, 2009, when she witnessed officer >> Johannes Mehserle shooting 22-year-old Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale >> BART transit station in Oakland, Calif. >> >> Ms. Vargas also had a Motorola Razr cellphone, but she turned on her >> 10-megapixel Fujifilm because it could record better quality video. (At the >> time, that meant 480p.) In a series of clips, many of them pixelated and >> shaky, she captured the officers surrounding Mr. Grant and eventually the >> sounds of the gunshots. >> >> A day later a local television producer came out to watch what she had >> recorded; he transferred the footage from her memory card to his laptop and >> aired it that day. >> >> “If I had this iPhone back then I would have taken much better video,” >> Ms. Vargas told me. “I would have been able to get closer and I probably >> would have shared it to Instagram or another place so everyone could see >> it.” She added, “Right now, there is this culture of ‘Let’s f—ing record >> these cops.’ It wasn’t that way then.” >> >> Other bystanders recorded from different angles with cellphones, though >> their details were quite blurry. All were submitted as evidence. In 2010, >> Mehserle was convicted of second-degree murder. >> >> Jump ahead to 2014. Ramsey Orta and his 2011 Samsung Galaxy phone >> captured 720p high-definition video of Eric Garner, surrounded by New York >> City police officers. Mr. Orta filmed police wrestling Mr. Garner to the >> pavement and putting him in a chokehold. On the video, he said he couldn’t >> breathe 11 times before he died. >> >> Mr. Orta originally shared the video with the New York Daily News, and it >> quickly spread across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The phrase “I can’t >> breathe” became a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement. Though Mr. >> Garner’s death was ruled a homicide, the officer involved was not indicted. >> >> Feidin Santana in North Charleston, S.C., had just gotten a new one from >> a friend, a Samsung Galaxy S5 with a 16-megapixel camera. He happened to be >> walking to his job when he saw Mr. Scott being chased by officer Michael >> Slager. Mr. Santana tapped the camera app and began recording for three >> minutes, capturing Slager shooting Mr. Scott five times as he tried to run. >> It was the first thing he filmed with the new phone. >> >> “I was getting used to the phone but in less than a few seconds I was >> able to get to the video option,” recalls Mr. Santana, who doesn’t consider >> himself tech savvy. >> >> The video, which was used as evidence in the trial, is shaky and at times >> blurry, but readable enough to see key parts of the incident play out. A >> jury convicted Slager of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 20 years >> in prison. >> >> Over the next few years, as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube made uploading, >> sharing and viewing mobile video easier, buckets of cellular data dropped >> in price, and smartphone ownership among Americans ages 18 to 49 passed >> 90%, recordings of police interaction mushroomed. >> >> On July 5, 2016, one of two videos of police officers killing Alton >> Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., was uploaded to Twitter. One officer was >> later fired but not charged. The next day, Diamond Reynolds went live on >> Facebook as she sat next to her dying boyfriend, Philando Castile, who had >> just been shot by an officer in St. Anthony, Minn. The officer was later >> found not guilty of second-degree manslaughter. >> >> That brings us to two weeks ago, when Ms. Frazier, only feet away from >> George Floyd and the police officer bearing down on him, captured it all in >> 1080p resolution video with the latest iPhone. It’s one of the clearest, >> highest-resolution videos of such a situation ever captured. >> >> “I will post the video in the morning as soon as I wake up. I don’t give >> a f—. If it gets taken down I don’t care,” Ms. Frazier said in a >> live-stream on Facebook a few hours after recording Mr. Floyd’s killing. >> “At least you all will see for yourselves. I’m pretty sure it’s a murder >> we’ll be seeing on the news.” Officer Chauvin has since been charged with >> second-degree murder, the other officers at the scene have also been >> charged and the city of Minneapolis has moved to restructure its police >> forces. >> >> Over the past decade, the smartphone changed our behavior. We went from >> photographing momentous occasions with specialized equipment—remember >> buying cameras?—to constantly, instantaneously capturing and sharing any >> moment we choose. Everyone I spoke to who had recorded these scenes of >> violence used the same word to describe why they did it: instinct. >> >> “I knew what was going on wasn’t right. I felt something was about to >> happen so I just took out my phone and started recording,” said Brandon >> Brooks, who filmed Dajerria Becton, a black teenager, being violently >> wrestled to the ground by a white officer in McKinney, Texas, in 2015. A >> few days later, the officer resigned. >> >> But capturing video of apparent brutality by those in power comes with a >> dark consequence: fear of retaliation. >> >> “I didn’t share it right away,” Mr. Santana, the man who filmed the >> killing of Walter Scott, told me. “I thought my life might be in danger. >> It’s a tough decision to come forward.” He said he feared the police >> department would come after him; he also said he wanted to wait to hear the >> police department’s side of the story. Ms. Vargas said she still vividly >> remembers an officer trying to get a hold of her camera on the train after >> she filmed the Oakland shooting of Oscar Grant. >> >> Allissa Richardson, a journalism professor at University of Southern >> California and author of the book “Bearing Witness While Black,” said that >> the proliferation of such footage can have an insidious side effect, the >> expectation of video where none is available. “We are almost asking black >> people to prove they didn’t deserve this [violence]. We don’t ask white >> people where the video is after mass shootings,” she said. Plus, the videos >> can end up being excessively played in the media, she added. >> >> And filming police violence doesn’t lead to an open-and-shut case. John >> Burris, a civil-rights attorney who represented Mr. Grant’s family, said >> that “without the videos all I would have had was the testimony of the >> African-American men against several cops. But ultimately the cops had >> their own stories about what happened which still made it extraordinarily >> difficult.” >> >> Police officers are increasingly aware of the presence of smartphone >> cameras, and aren’t always deterred by them. Police departments have >> equipped officers with their own body cams or car dashboard cameras—though >> smartphone footage often provides a different vantage point. Some experts >> say that qualified-immunity laws and the power of police unions offer bad >> actors unwarranted protection. >> >> “If someone were to do such a violent act knowing they are on camera, >> that’s some evil intent right there,” said Sheriff Christopher Swanson, >> from the Office of Genesee County Sheriff in Flint, Mich. He believes the >> killing of Mr. Floyd will result in widespread police union reform. >> >> So smartphone videos have been far from a panacea for racial injustice. >> But at least now, more than ever, we all can see it, clearly and vividly. >> >> The cameras will continue to improve. Like any technology story, what we >> do with them, and the world we want them to capture, is up to us. >> >> —Jim Oberman contributed to this article. >> >> >> https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-used-smartphone-cameras-to-record-police-brutalityand-change-history-11592020827?mod=djemTECH >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major >> commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you >> moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest mode, or change password by emailing >> [email protected]. >> >>
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