Police Brutality in Relation to the Ineffectiveness of Body Cameras.
In their article, “Body Cameras Worn by Police are No ‘Safeguard of Truth,’ Experts Say”, Vivian Yee and Kirk Johnson emphasize on how body cameras are not effective enough to prevent police brutality against American citizens. A grand jury found out that innocent African American Men's’ rights are not being considered when they are been brutally beaten by the police. As a result, the grand jury’s solution to this problem was to create a law that forces police officers to wear body cameras when they are in the act of arresting their victims. Yee and Johnson provide several examples from the article to support this claim that the body cameras worn by the police are not necessarily effective. The title “Body Cameras Worn By Police Officers are No ‘Safeguard of
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Even if Mr. King was not cooperative enough, they still have absolutely no right to choke him to death. It should be obvious to the grand jury that the police officers are only lying. Instead, the grand jury is only blinded to see the fact that the police officers only killed Mr. King for no reason. Even in society, when a police is chasing a criminal, if they need to shoot that person in order to arrest them, they only have the right to shoot the person in a place that would not make the victim likely to die. The grand jury should know that, choking is only intended to kill, and that the police officers could have just hand copped Mr. King. This was the same grand jury who issued the body cameras to prevent violent encounters between police officers and American citizens and he should have looked into the case more to come to a conclusion. This would have made the body cameras effective but only served no justice for the American citizens it's seeking to