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No, BuffScan is Not Posting the Video Leak

06/24/2023

I and by extension BuffScan occupy a unique place in the spectrum of police/public relationship quality. On one hand, I can be seen as an agitator-nuisance, what with all this "open broadcasting" and glorification of public safety drama bullshit (objective characterization I mean, to me, it's not "BS"). In other words a troublemaker sure to bite his way to someone's retaliation or to get himself killed somehow. The obit on myself were it to involve my activities, would not surprise me in the least.

But on the other hand I am an open non-sexual "police groupie" type. I love law enforcement, its structure, its institutions, its entire point in a viable working healthy society. Progressive and ardent BLM supporters (the foaming aggressive ones at least) would take me as a bootlicker.

Now of course I would not go that far, but if anyone erroneously felt that way, I get it. I try to post only positive things here whenever it's a police thing that I have to talk about, which I won't deny.

For example, there was a Ring-style camera video posted online about two weeks ago -- somewhere -- showing a local area police officer in full uniform, gun and all, who stows behind a building for a quick pee.

The video camera captured it all in at least 1080...P.

I have that video saved, but I sure as hell ain't posting it. And I go out of my way to mention this to demonstrate some kind of institutional compassion. For one, the situation deserves it. The officer was probably on a detail (I suspect but don't know related to the art festival. Def something like that in any case), and just had to go, period. I am sure that it was a breach of desperation and seeing the video posted with its at-last-count 2.2K views, had to be the most embarrassing thing ever for the officer.

And second, related to that empathy, I've done the same thing under far less noble circumstances. Thanks to a night of heavy drinking and a decision to "walk it" home, there is now a building on Delaware Avenue with the residue of my diabetically over-sweetened urine, sprinkled in place by me making the bladder gladder when I had nine blocks to the bathroom. I know that my desperate situation and ultimate handling of it exists in some commercial building's security video archive, and I would hate to see that posted.

It's noteworthy too that the local MSM media feels the same way, evidently. Though it has been a few weeks now, it has not, despite its higher than average view count for the forum it exists in, to the best of my knowledge at least, been seized upon and raised to the level of ever-profitable "gotcha" journalism, which it easily could be.

I felt the need to explain why the local website of pure public safety openness and the self-admitted embracer of drama and gasolining-on, might not immediately bee-line to post this video, particularly when nobody else has. In this website's early days let this be a notable example and acknowledgment that even I have my limits when it comes to respecting individuals in this sort of very specific situation.

By BuffScan for BuffScan.