Witness to SC Shooting interview on All In With Chris Hayes

[avebury]

5. I remember the case a while back where several citizens

in California witness about 8-9 cops literally beat a man to death as he hollered for help. At least 2 of the witnesses videoed the incidents with their cell phones. Both were literally held hostage in their home until they turned the phones over to the police. If that has been me, I would have been on the phone to some people I know who are video experts to figure out how to upload the video elsewhere and email it out all over the place before I would hand over the phone.

Another guy videoed an incident where cops were beating up this guy. The cops took away his device and deleted the video. Fortunately for the guy (and not the cops) the video had been automatically uploaded to the cloud and the guy got it back.

If anybody videos the cops doing anything wrong they should never ever consider letting them know they have a video until they are able to make sure that they have secured a copy of the video in a safe place.