Alex S. Vitale: Body cameras aren't going to save Americans or give us a deeper truth about police violence. The truth is already out there. We merely refuse to look at it.
. While we crave a hard truth about the nature of policing that will make us safer and hold police accountable, these videos have failed to reassure us on either front.America has a lurid fascination with police, who occupy a special place in the social imagination. At night, we watch fictionalized portrayals of police solving crimes and getting the bad guys, sometimes in ways that are violent, fall outside the law and shock our conscience.
In the case of Nichols’ beating by Memphis police, the footage released is incomplete . The officers who made the initial stop were part of a now-disbanded plainclothes squad who didn’t wear body cameras. We are left to view footage from uniformed officers as they arrive on the scene. What we do see, however, is a litany of horrors.
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