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Youtube Video Prompts FBI Probe of LAPD
PachecoJ writes "The AP has a story of a Youtube video showing police brutality that has sparked an FBI probe of the LAPD. A group called 'Cop Watch LA' placed the video online to draw attention to the actions by officers. The officers pictured in the video are now being defended by police defense attorney John Barnett, who defended the officers in the 'Rodney King' trial of 1991." From the article: "A search on YouTube for the terms 'police brutality' found more than 500 videos, including ones that claim to show police violence in the U.S. and as far away as Egypt and Hungary. A search of Google's video site also yielded hundreds of videos. In response to the surge in amateur videos, some law enforcement agencies have installed cameras in squad cars to protect officers against false allegations."
In Soviet USA, you watch Big Brother!
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In democratic UK, Big Brother... err... wait... hang on
Heh. That's why I love my job. I work at a computer surplus store. Supervision is light enough, we CAN in fact tell people to fuck off, or just walk away and ignore them in mid-sentence. Now, I don't do this much, but I will walk away and snub someone if they "bad haggle". This is, offering $10 for some $80 computer. Then when told no, they'll try to get in the way and ask if they can get it for $10 again about every minute. Now to avoid this, if anyone asks the same question a second time in a row I just ignore them, they obviously are not going to buy. The fuck off's are rare, and are more for people that will get "AS-IS" stuff for like $5, then come in and expect driver CDs (which we never get), want us to install it for them, etc. and then get real rude about it when we point out it was as-is. Whatever I can be rude back then 8-).