Cry Me an Exoneration: After Officer Kills Civilian, Police Use Video as Sympathy Propaganda, Media Bait — BagNews

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After Brooklyn Execution, Has Media Sympathy Shifted Pro-Police? – Reading The Pictures

With the exoneration of Officer Morrison overlapping the backlash by the NYPD, we have a poster example of a serious problem with video and police accountability. It’s called over-sharing.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/01/police-use-video-as-sympathy-propaganda-media-bait/

A police shooting in Montana and the subsequent use of that video, however, not only raises disturbing questions but opens a Pandora’s Box of new concerns over how and how much these videos can be selectively edited and distributed as propaganda … and how much the media can collude with the state to distribute these versions.