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<text id=91TT1553>
<title>
July 15, 1991: American Notes:Violence
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
VIOLENCE
Little Brother Is Watching
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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</body></article>
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