[Sopater]

Maybe its just the ease of communicating over the Internet, but there seem to be more and more of these stories.

Yeah, I think that it's the increased access to "easy" video recording equipment (cell phones) and access to world-wide media (youtube, fb, twitter, etc.). I expect that they've found it easier to ignore the 4th amendment in the past than they do today.

Without this video recording, it would have been their word against the police's.

[ukases05]

good thing the cops were black too or we’d have weeks of Jesse and no jusssus no peas.