A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.
The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.
Except that cops are stupid. Most of them don’t delete video evidence most of the time. And destroying the camera itself produces evidence that can and will be used against them. And there’s no excuse for taking one out of the car. They are also recording already, and can be quickly voice activated. So dash cams are not minimal.
You should also record on your phone.
Of course dirty cops could do tons of bad things, but the more complicated the cover-up is, the more likely that they get caught.