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TeeYiYi

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44. I consider him to be a citizen streamer...

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 04:38 PM

Nov 2014

...one of many who are keeping the cops and the community honest by providing continuous video streamed evidence, live as it happens, and then archiving it and making the archives available to anyone who is interested.

I would also have to say that he fits the definition of a journalist; a person who collects and distributes current information.

TYY

Edited to add: I have to take issue with your insistence that the guy with the camera was taunting the cop. That's clearly not how it went down. Watch the vid.

re: While the Officer's conduct was clearly inappropriate, does anyone consider the "journalist's" taunting of the Officer an appropriate role of a "journalist, as it clearly done with the hope of provoking, and catching on film, police violence.

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You need to watch the video... TeeYiYi Nov 2014 #38

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I consider him to be a citizen streamer... TeeYiYi Nov 2014 #44

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #46

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Okay. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #48

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