If More Cops Wore Cameras, Would Mike Brown Still Be Alive? [VIDEO]

by Austin Petersen

President Obama and Eric Holder promised today to outfit police officers with body cameras. If Officer Darren Wilson had been wearing one, would Mike Brown still be alive?

Editor of The Libertarian RepublicAustin Petersen appeared on the Sun News Network with Pat Bolland to discuss the problems with Ferguson, racial profiling, and the law. The issues are, as Petersen sees it, twofold:

1. The law is perverted. When police are asked to enforce unjust laws, there will be injustice. Officers enforcing unconstitutional stop and frisks, checkpoints and other civil liberties violations are “just doing their job.” Exactly. It’s time to change their job. Change the law, and kill the injustice from the wellspring where it flows: the legislature.

Also, police in Rialto, California saw a sharp decline in complaints against officers, falling 88% since February of 2012. The use of force by officers collapsed by 60%. Clearly it must be required for all on duty police officers to wear cameras. If they complain of funding issues then they can sell the Mine Resistant Armored Vehicles off that the Pentagon gave them for scrap.

If Officer Darren Wilson had been wearing a camera, Mike Brown might still be alive today.

2. As Dr. Ben Carson famously said to President Barack Obama, “the politically correct police are out in full force at all time.” If all people regardless of color or gender are not allowed to have an honest discussion about problems in minority communities then there will be no progress on cultural issues. Vipers who feed off of social democratic constituencies in minority communities have a vested interested in silencing any debate that might show these emperors wear no clothes.

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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