Today on Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviewed one of the victims of police misconduct which occurred last August in New York City. In his case, the prosecutor used video evidence that had been altered to edit out portions which clearly showed the man was innocent of the police's accusations. The original footage was discovered by a lawyer of one of the other victims, who then compared both versions of the footage side by side to discover the discrepency.

The man also talks about the techniques the police used to trap entire crowds between intersections, arrest everybody present, and then detain them under deplorable conditions. It pretty much corroborates earlier reports by other sources, a story eerily absent from the mainstream media. (Had the protesters not been so well-behaved, I bet there would have been lots of headlines about them on CNN.)

Oh, and in the interest of fairness, she also interviewed a representative of the NYPD. He made a lot of excuses, but never bothered to answer WHY the police arrested so many people who were doing nothing but observing.