How Do Body Camera Cause Privacy

On July 17, 2004, Eric Garner, an African American man, died in Staten Island, New York City after a New York Police officer used chokehold for around 20 seconds while arresting him. The NYC Medical examiner's officer concluded the cause of Garner’s death was because of his poor health and was not because of the chokehold that the officer had used. The police officer approached Garner because of the suspicion of tax evasion, that Garner was selling cigarettes without tax. Garner told the officer he was not selling cigarettes and the officer went to arrest Garner anyway. Even though the NYPD has prohibited any usage of chokehold while in restrain, the police officer used chokehold on Garner to restrain him and Garner had repeated “I can't breath …show more content…
According to “What you need to know about body-worn cameras”, “First and foremost are privacy concerns. Wiretap laws in some states prevent the audio recording of a police/citizen interaction without the consent of both parties…citizen in an area has a reasonable expectation of privacy can also become problematic. In other words, there are laws that can prevent recording of citizen without the consent of both parties. However, truth of the matter is that even if your face is been recorded on camera the police will blur out citizen’s face before publish the footage. According to Timothy Williams in “Downside of police Body Cameras: Your Arrest Hits YouTube”, “The department has setup its own YouTube Channel, broadcasting a stream of blurred images to protect the privacy of people filmed.” In other words, there is no worries of your face shown on the camera because before police upload body camera footages to public officers will blur out images to protect people’s privacy and mute conversations between people. Therefore, it is clear that there is no worries for your privacy to be shown in