“I would hope that every citizen that has a cellphone that has a camera on it, if they see something that’s going on and they have questions about it, they need to film it. Our citizens should police the police. That’s their job, too.”
— Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, who fired a school resource officer who dragged a high school student from a classroom. The episode was videotaped and went viral nationally, much like the shooting of Rodney Scott earlier this year by a North Charleston officer. More.