The same thing happened with Rodney King. NPR reported yesterday that a local L.A. TV station "cropped" the video to eliminate King's initial psycho behavior. The jury acquitted the officers after seeing the entire video, but the public thought that the edited version was reality, thus the riots.
BTW, NPR reported that many of the Iraq abuse photos have been cropped to exclude dozens of other troops standing there, watching. This would clobber the "just a few bad apples" argument.
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The same thing happened with Rodney King. NPR reported yesterday that a local L.A. TV station "cropped" the video to eliminate King's initial psycho behavior. The jury acquitted the officers after seeing the entire video, but the public thought that the edited version was reality, thus the riots.
BTW, NPR reported that many of the Iraq abuse photos have been cropped to exclude dozens of other troops standing there, watching. This would clobber the "just a few bad apples" argument.