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Pauls' Revere
ffs we're becoming more and more subservient to big bro with each passing day. SMDH. or how about one of those robotic security robots tht cruise the malls.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/t...111004996.html
Hourly retail security workers are now wearing police-like body cameras at major stores.
Retail giant TJX, the parent of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, said it’s equipping some store employees with body cameras to thwart shoplifting and keep customers and employees safe.
TJX finance chief John Klinger disclosed the body-camera initiative on an earnings call last month. “It’s almost like a de-escalation, where people are less likely to do something when they’re being videotaped,” he said.
TJX isn’t alone. In a survey of major chains by the National Retail Federation last year, 35% of US retailers said they were researching body cameras for employees. The manufacturer of Taser devices and other security companies are now designing and marketing body cameras specifically for retail workers.
Meh. Considering the world we live in private security having body cameras makes sense.
https://www.wkrn.com/news/i-cant-bre...ught-on-video/
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — “I can’t breathe.” Some of the last words captured on video before a Smyrna man died at a popular downtown bar.
Dallas “DJ” Barrett was last seen alive in the video taken back on August 16. He died after he was held down by security guards at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row.
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A witness recorded nearly four minutes of the incident after she said a number of security guards had already held Barrett down for at least five minutes.
“He said he couldn’t breathe, you can hear him in the video say he couldn’t breathe,” the witness who didn’t want to be identified told News 2.
However, five security guards continued to hold Barrett down, she said, as he was subdued and not fighting.
“You can see DJ smacking the ground telling him to get up. He’s like okay, that’s enough. Okay stop,” she explained.
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DJ’s final words: “I can’t breathe”
The witness said a security guard tried to stop her from recording, telling her he can breathe. An interaction was captured on the video.
“He had five people on his back and they just laid there on him. They laid on him. He asked them to get up, he said he couldn’t breathe. They laid on him so he started fighting to get up. He couldn’t breathe, so at this point, this man is fighting for his life,” she said.
It was a fight Barrett ultimately lost.
“I’m so sorry for his mother. I don’t think he deserved it, it was so sad. I don’t even know how to describe it. I never watched anyone take their last breath.”
The video is too hard for Barret’s best friend to watch. Bradyn Anderson was beside Barrett, also detained by security on the ground that night.
Edit: And if there is ever a place where there is "no expectation of privacy" it's in somebody else's business. Most businesses today have multiple security cameras. Even small businesses. I've installed them before. It's when the government starts "encouraging" people to share their private security camera feeds with them that this becomes Big Brother. And....that's happening.
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