Would you extend that same line of thinking to officers?
I am not being flippant, because if we are going to hold them to a high standard of making no mistake sin split second decisions (and we should when it comes to force!) then we can as a society take a few minutes to research something before amplifying a false narrative in social media. Or, if the corrective information comes out later, we need to use just as much energy to amplify the truth instead of going "oops". Truth matters because it is the truth, and not because it is convenient.
Not in the same way no, officers go through extensive training and swore an oath to protect and uphold the highest standards of the law to the best of their ability, they made that choice. Also the mistakes an officer makes can have an impact on someone's life & potentially impact family members & others too, as we've seen with that cop from Florida on the previous page.
That's simply not comparable to a regular person thinking a police officer threw some weed in the back seat of his car and jumping to conclusions as a result. I don't see how that guy's assumption somehow makes it harder to stop the larger goal of stopping police brutality and instances of deception. Also if we really want to dive into this rabbit hole, I'd assume that the whole reason that this guy was filming in the first place, was
because of the amount of instances we've seen where police officers abuse their powers, or people have ended up dead through their interactions at a traffic stop. That casusation cannot be ignored, because if he wasn't filming, he probably wouldn't have even seen the guy throw the rubbish in his car.
You can't compare the actions of every day people to professionals imo, there's a reason they are in that place in the first place - and that applies to pretty much any profession due to the gap in knowledge/skill/experience etc.
What I did like was the response from the police department, obviously they wanted to make it clear that they didn't do anything wrong on their part and were transparent and provided evidence to back that up too. That should be the expectation going forward, too many times we don't get clarification or transparency anywhere near this level.
Yes I understand it's a highly charged job, they are expected to make split second decisions and they are humans so yes they will make mistakes. The problem is that mistakes they make can mean the end of someone's life, whether literally or due to jail time, beyond that can lead to other effects such as losing job/trauma/criminal records etc.
So while it's impossible to expect perfection, we should expect accountability and proper sentencing when mistakes happen.
So yeah, I fail to see how this guys incorrect assumption makes it harder to achieve that.
and then I watch five secs and my literal first thought was “wait that’s an empty bag”. But barely anyone in the comments section seems to even acknowledge it.