On the "bright side", abuse of authority (extending far beyond police violence) occurs every day in every country I've visited... and at least in the USA citizens are not afraid to film it and protest wherever and whenever it occurs.
The trend in totalitarian governments is to put the right to film solely in the hands of the Party. Cameras, and facial recognition, is everywhere... but you don't see people in Communist China filming police brutality, or abuse of muslim minorities.
#righttobearcameras
In the USA we wouldn't even recognize that Uyghurs, gypsies or Tutsi or Rohingya as a minority (we mistake Sikhs for Muslims here, pretty shoddy racial profiling, Boogalo Bois).
Citizen cameras belong on the Second Amendment. And the United Nations should recognize the right to film police action as a universal human right.
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