Following the death of George Floyd and the ensuing violent riots that raged across the nation in the summer of 2020, the thugs orchestrating the Black Lives Matter rampage demanded that police officers wear body cameras in order to document the supposed widespread, systemic, institutional racism motivating said police officers to wantonly slay defenseless, unarmed minorities.

BLM-aligned organizations, like Justice for All and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, advocated for legislation and funding to expand the use of body cameras, characterizing the use of the devices as a needed social justice reform.

Some, however, had more foresight than honesty and argued against expanding the use of body cameras. Why? Well, these activists claimed that body cameras were a form of illegal surveillance of minority groups, a waste of money on police departments that really should be abolished, and a biased tool favoring the police officer’s perspective and context over that of the subject the police are dealing with.

In all likelihood, this cunning subset of self-styled social justice warriors actually just leapt ahead to the logical conclusion that the vast majority of police officers are not homicidal racists bent on exterminating ethnic minorities and that maybe fatal altercations with police officers are less the fault of highly-trained law enforcement professionals and more the result of fast-paced, high-stakes encounters with unhinged personalities.

Sure enough, as the body cameras went into effect, videos began popping up demonstrating that cops weren’t acting out their demented Klansman fantasies on the job, but were often responding to life-threatening situations. In 2021, for example, police in North Carolina attempted to arrest Andrew Brown Jr. on drug charges, but Brown........

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