WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups are planning to train a legion of volunteers on how to record police encounters in minority neighbourhoods in hopes that fear of being videoed will deter misconduct like illegal shootings of unarmed men and women. The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and other groups officially announced the Santana Initiative on Thursday, which will train citizens on their rights to record police interactions with the public. But Santana’s video showed Slager shooting Scott after the black man started running away. In addition, it plans to train volunteers to learn how to legally record people trying to intimidate minorities at voting places or trying to keep people from showing up to vote. Police have increased the use of cameras in their cars and body-cams in their interactions with the public, but they control whether those are being used and what happens to the video, Keenan said.

Source: National Post July 20, 2017 21:11 UTC