Brazil is noted for its police working as death squads against poor kids, especially any that dare come close to areas the wealthy or tourists hang out. It's a mess. When they're had some international conferences and such that get world attention, who piles of poor kids like this just disappear.
The only difference is that it was video taped. I really think that equipping everybody with the a video camera is actually a big win for freedom since abuses are no longer private.
I know there are some LEO's on this board who are upset about attitudes here. I'm rather upset by LEO's, DA's and such who are opposed to the taping of police activities. I can see that there might be some narrow areas of preventing taping like protecting the privacy of a crime victim or showing gory accidents. In doing their job I don't think police have a reasonable right of privacy when interacting with the public. Reason magazine has collected piles of stories of attempts by law enforcement groups to ban the taping of their activities and quite a few arrests and prosecutions of people doing taping.
Steve
