Raw Story’s worst cops of 2014 — and there are a lot of them

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The recent protests suggest, 2014 could have been the year that tensions between law enforcement officers and the people who they are charged with protecting peaked.

Looking back over some of the disturbing Raw Story reports from the last year shows why the public has become more and more skeptical of the men and women behind the badge.

1. Free speech and photography are not crimes.


Even as body cameras are becoming more popular, some officers still have a problem with being recorded. Like North Carolina Deputy Natalie Barber. She detained a retired United States Marine combat instructor, claiming her “safety” was threatened when he was inside his home recording how she handled a dispute between him and his neighbor.

A police officer in Brooklyn didn’t like being filmed so he gave Will Paybarah a ticket in March, telling him that “iPhones are being used as guns.” Officer Adolphus Cannon of Waller, Texas pepper-sprayed a Prairie View A&M University student who was recording him, and then offered to let him go if he didn’t release the video.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/raw-storys-worst-cops-of-2014-and-there-are-a-lot-of-them/