Today, and recently, the Occupy Wall Street nationwide movement in the U.S. has gained a lot of ground. And those who posted video footage of protests on Youtube and elsewhere did more than help show coverage of most of those protests, that exposed city cops like the NYPD beating protesters and using other methods of dispersing crowds.
From firing projectiles at protesters that struck a protester in the head, to running down a protester with a police motorcycle, police brutality in America is still well-known. Now the NYPD and others are going to Youtube/Google and persuading the people there to erase them, likely because they are depicting unprofessional behavior from cops, trying to handle the protesters on the streets. Sadly they do not want the public to know that they're doing this, but this is nothing new.
During the Civil Rights era in the late 60's, police brutality was quite common in the Southeast US, but the question remains: Has the police departments in that part of the U.S. changed their ways, and can they be trusted?
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