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Many videos “contradict official claims… call[ing] into question the trope of police officers as guardian-warriors maintaining the ‘thin blue line’ between a vulnerable public and dangerous predators. Without video… [the] public may assume [victims]… are criminals."
Cops, Lies, and Videotape: Police Reform and the Media in Hawaii
Crime, Media, Culture
Vol. 14 Issue 2, pp. 171–190,
2018
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