Jesus christ, what is wrong with all you people? Somehow, firefighters in america have become the bad guys? They fucked up in an incredibly difficuly situation, and because of it, a young girl is dead. Do you have any idea how traumatic this must be for the officers involved? This policy is not about "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about", it's about protecting the people who literally risk their lives for the rest of us; protecting them and the families of those affected from public exposure of horrific events such as these. If your daughter was killed in a horrific accident like this, would you want video of the event and her mutilated corpse shown to people around the world? I have a feeling most of you would not. And the same would be said if you had been the person who was responsible for killing them.
Clearly one, or several, people fucked up on the ground, and somehow this has turned into a debate about how bureaucrats are trying to protect themselves from "their fuckups". This had nothing to do with the bureaucrats, it has to do with the men on the ground, and the whole situation is truly horrific for them.
I'm all for police officers wearing cameras (at least in the US where abuses of power seem to be the norm), but I am also vehemently against the idea that emergency service officers should be subjected to the same treatment. Their job is incredibly difficult and dangerous. Sometimes mistakes happen, and sometimes those mistakes are incredibly regretful, but I feel that these officers being forced to fear every action they make will mean they cannot do their job effectively. We do not live in a society where we can expect 100% perfection 100% of the time, form anyone at all. I would rather have firefighters who occasionally screw up, than none at all.
The sentiment in these comments has I find deeply disturbing, and completely misdirected, and I feel that many of the commenters here should stop and think about who is most affected by their statements. I'd hate to be one of the officers involved, and then to see the sort of crap that's been said here.
