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- NATION, Page 25American NotesVIOLENCELittle Brother Is Watching
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- The videocamera, long the weapon of choice among obsessive
- parents, is finding favor with crime fighters these days. The
- Los Angeles police's grisly beating of Rodney King, videotaped
- by an amateur and aired on national television in March, was
- only the first of a growing number of America's Unfunniest Home
- Videos. At a Washington trial last month, prosecutors introduced
- a videotape of five men robbing and beating victims during a
- 1989 crime spree, which was recorded for posterity by one of the
- defendants.
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- Last week, during a fireworks display in Detroit, an
- amateur photographer videotaped a gang of young black women
- beating two older white women while police stood by. After the
- tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested
- and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a
- woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer
- beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton.
- The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is
- free on bail.
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