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this is what the panthers did in oakland except instead of recording, they would listen to the scanners and just show up with rifles
but props to this dude and his org it aint THE solution, but its a mitigating strategy for now, since i dont think no one is leaving any time soon
***** That video, which caused nationwide outrage after it went viral on social media, was actually filmed by a member of an organized group that specifically seeks out violent crimes using police scanners with the intention of filming them, not for the purpose of exposing police but to deter young people from crime.
Early Tuesday morning, members of the group, called Stop the Killing, followed a call they overheard on police scanners to the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge. There, they filmed the shooting that has created a nationwide furor.
The group’s founder, 43-year-old Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed, made the decision to upload the video of Sterling’s shooting on social media Tuesday afternoon.
Reed and his team have filmed killings — or their immediate aftermaths — for years.
During a phone interview with The Washington Post early Thursday, Reed said he and his group of anti-violence activists have filmed upwards of 30 killings in Louisiana since 2001. That was the year he put his violent past behind him and founded Stop the Killing in his home town of Baton Rouge.
The organization seeks to prevent violent crimes, particularly among black youths, by performing outreach to local schools, prisons, churches and group homes.
“We focus on those individuals in the community to help them from going and getting killed or going back to prison,” Reed said.
One of the organization’s methods of deterring young people from crime is by filming violent crimes, often killings, and creating documentaries from the videos to show at demonstrations.
His team finds the killings, mostly around Louisiana, by keeping an ear on police scanners for calls that seem to have the potential to end violently.
“We actually create documentaries on murders, and one of the things that we do is we listen to police scanners to go out and film murders,” Reed said.
Although it isn’t the group’s goal, they sometimes film police doing things like “checking cars illegally,” he said.
Early Tuesday morning, members of his team — he wouldn’t say who, nor confirm he was present, citing safety concerns — filmed the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling outside the Triple S Food Mart. After police did not immediately release any footage of the shooting, Reed and his team uploaded the video to Facebook and Instagram at about 5 p.m. Tuesday.
“We see a great injustice, and we wanted it to be known,” Reed said. “We’re forcefully seeking justice. This is a civil rights movement, and this is the continuation of same struggle that black people have been going through for so many years.”
By uploading the video, Reed could ensure that people would know exactly what happened.
“We don’t have faith in the system,” he said, citing the Eric Garner case. “We think the system is set up where we’re hiring licensed killers.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/07/the-story-behind-the-filming-of-the-fatal-baton-rouge-police-shooting/?tid=pm_national_pop_b
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