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Rumpus Book ClubLittle Brother is Watching Too
Brian Spears · April 11th, 2009
When Oscar Grant was shot by BART police in an Oakland station on New Year’s Day, locals found it quite suspicious that the official surveillance cameras weren’t working, so that no video would be available. Had it not been for “little brother,” i.e. people in the area with their cell-phone cameras out recording what happened, the story police told might have been far different.
The latest example comes from the G-20 summit, where London’s CCTV cameras were shut down by a legal ruling two days before the summit started. …more
