Pardon Me While I Have a Strange Interlude

And this tendency is probably doing some damage.

This is why the Darren Wilsons of the world would love police cameras. They look at young black men and see monsters, and they’re sure that if we saw what they saw, we’d see their actions as justified.

One argument I’ve seen against cameras is “well, they’d just ‘accidentally’ damage them or cover the lens.” Except that doesn’t happen notably often with dashboard or interrogation-room cameras, and it would be obvious even to racist cops that if you disable the camera, people will assume you’re up to something shady.