Capturing the Police

Capturing the Police is a major editorial project by The Verge to examine the experience of documenting police violence by civilians’ smartphones, sharing it, and consuming it. We also investigate what happens to those who film these instances and how police body cameras can underplay police violence.

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This project was edited by Bijan Stephen, produced by Mariya Abdulkaf, designed by William Joel, built by Miriam Nadler, photo-edited by Amelia Holowaty Krales, copy-edited by Kara Verlaney and Adia Watts, and distributed by Esther Cohen, Kaitlin Hatton, Dilpreet Kainth, and Ruben Salvadori. Videos …
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A summer of protest, captured by smartphones
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David Frost thought he saw someone die right in front of him. At a protest in downtown Austin just before midnight on May 31st, police shot 20-year-old college student Justin Howell in the back of the head with a “nonlethal” bean bag round, one week after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. …
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Recording police brutality: how one snap decision changed this town
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Here’s what police body cameras don’t show you
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Writing against police brutality, then and now
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I haven’t done this in a while. Then again, neither has our country — at least not really. It has been a long seven years since Trayvon Martin’s death, and a longer six since the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, brought the movement for civil rights home to a younger generation. This isn’t to say …
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Why police officers embraced a banned weapon of war
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Before tear gas was an instrument of the police, it was an instrument of war. French, German, and American chemists all experimented with poisonous gases during World War I, and tear gas was specifically developed as a way to force opposing fighters out of the trenches and into the open fields …

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