Cops are playing music during filmed encounters to game YouTube's copyright striking

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The police are attempting to use YouTube's stringent copyright system to keep people from posting recordings of encounters with law enforcement.
45% : Video evidence is not only an act of protest and self-determination, but also desperately needed to hold law enforcement accountable.
39% : Law enforcement across the country have responded to journalists, protestors, and even bystanders who record their actions by demanding they delete the videos, confiscating their phones without a warrant, and detaining those who resist.
38% : Burch noted that Shelby may have learned of it from police forums or private Facebook groups, which are rampant with hostility toward the Black Lives Matter movement.

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