Yep!!!  Becaus of social media and the fact it's "everywhere" or everywhere a camerphone is  this stuff is reported more as people post videos.

I think it's actually a good thing that stories like this come out into the open.

I do wonder how many people become cops to do the right thing but get disillusioned with the job and that's when they might go sour.

I live in a place where people where the #Breatheasy Don't Break The Law shirts.

The people who feel that if black people stopped committing crimes, then cops wouldn't have to kill them.

There's no arguing with them. The problem, in there eyes, lies entirely with others.

On Mr. Blake, I had a friend who announced on facebook that the officer who detained him was 'a hero' and that Blake should not have been 'looking like a suspect', just to give you a reference for the kind of area and people I live around and near. Said idiot on facebook stated that Mr. Blake should not be compensated or even apologized to, and then went on a rant about tea party bullshit and the 2nd amendment.

Did anyone see this? Not sure about the validity considering the site it came from but hey if this is true there lies a real problem with cops..

Cops shot man with a camera phone.

Case of mistaken identity, so somebody clearly ****ed up here. The whole excessive force complaints here are nonsense though. Won't stop some sleazy lawyers from jumping all over this looking for a single scratch.

The truth is that not all that long ago New York used to be a crime infested hellhole a lot worse than it is today (despite the apparent efforts of Comrade Bill de Blasio to reverse that trend). The NYPD had a large part to play in that despite the problems with corruption and such that are going to exist in a police force that large.

But shit happens and then every asshole in the world with a cellphone stands around recording it these days so they can bitch about it on Twitter or whatever social media bullshit they use to feed their egos.