[Towed_Jumper]

Henry Bowman wannabe?

[DCBryan1]

Nah...Henry Bowman would go after bigger fish.....this one would ;)

[DCBryan1]

Yo!

[freedumb2003]

We can paraphrase — they don’t own the news.

He was a private contractor who was shot while photo/video monitoring a Phoenix highway. The story is a little confusing as it says that a suspect is in custody bit the suspect vehicle, which is on the video, is being sought.

[Vaquero]

cant post AP?

has that changed again. I though we could now.

[hoosierham]

People are getting fed up with all the government cameras everywhere and for-profit prisons,red-light and speed cams are even worse.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more destruction of the automated cameras.

Some few people are going to react violently.Most of us have too much to lose or better sense.

[Dead Corpse]

Some effed up comments at that link... On both sides of the argument.

I feel sorry for the Enforcers getting caught in what's coming. This guy didn't deserve to die, he was just a convenient symbol of the growing oppression in our Government that someone decided to take retribution against.

It's sad. It's regrettable. But I predict that there will be more of this to come. Government, doing what governments do to protect themselves, will use incidences like this to crack down on those of us still trying to follow their laws.

[joesjane]

Interesting that Napaletano ordered the camera systems to be used. Another example of large scale civilian surveillance? Maybe trying to locate all the right wing extremists.

[NativeNewYorker]

Then-Gov. Janet Napolitano, now the U.S. Homeland Security secretary, had ordered DPS to begin developing the system in early 2007. She also was instrumental in writing the 2008 budget law that launched the program in September.

[Centurion2000]

Looks like the shooter's intention worked.

RedFlex, the private company operating the DPS photo cameras pulled all their vehicles and people out of safety concerns.

Can't say I'm sympathetic to them at all.

[HiJinx]

Napolitano said the program was a way to improve public safety but critics said its inclusion in the budget indicated that increasing state revenue was the real motivation. Critics also say the program isn't fair to motorists.

Gov. Napolitano's office first tried to sell this to the public as a state revenue increase and played up the fact that there were to be no points or criminal penalties associated with speeding past a photo van. They later came out and admitted that that was a poor choice of selling points and went with the 'slower speeds save lives' message.

[A.A. Cunningham]

cannot post AP

Wrong. Excerpts of AP copyright articles are allowed.

[mysterio]

I hate those cameras more than most people do. That being said, I can’t condone physical violence on the operator.