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Follow-up on child being 'allowed' to urinate by stormtrooperesque officer during drug raid

I just noticed that Radley Balko had some follow-up wherein the allegedly 'neutral' journalist expressed their extremely strong aversion to anyone using or interpreting the images the took in any way other than the way they were intended. This journalist, Justin Cook, was probably and naturally worried that if he wasn't going to take such a position, he'd never be able to follow the police around. I mean, if the police had accidentally killed that child, he'd clearly never take a picture of the child's bloody body because that wouldn't support his view that the drug war is really great and thus help him do PR for the police. That is sarcasm. It is worrisome to me when people who are supposed to report objectively cannot understand how anyone wouldn't interpret or use their work as they intended (or even issue futile threats to sue)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defending Those People on December 16, 2006 (boomark / email).