Images taken from the video showing a man who has stolen a rifle from a nearby Walmart.

Just days after the murder case in North Carolina, the American public came across another video showing police cruelty in person. A police officer from Arizona rammed the suspect in his cruiser in front of his colleagues with the footage caught on a dashboard camera in the officer’s car.

Besides the North Carolina case there was also a case of manslaughter committed by a sheriff’s deputy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he allegedly confused his stun gun with his hand gun.

The public opinion is divided, some people say it wasn’t like this in the past, while others think that now with new technologies which are available for everyone like smartphones and cheap cameras people have more insight into what is going on.

The Arizona case occurred in February, but it was only recently posted online. The man that was hit by a police cruiser had allegedly stolen a loaded rifle from Wal-Mart and robbed a store with it. The suspect was injured, but with some wonder he survived this “car accident”. He was taken to police custody after he was released from hospital, but he is determined to sue the Police Department for this severe action.

Police officers were obliged to put cameras on their dash boards and in some cases on their body or glasses since the case in Ferguson where a young black man was killed by a white police officer.

The issue with this practice is that the security of the files are still not well conducted so some of these videos find their way onto services like YouTube and spread like wildfire. As officials say, this sometimes can show a bad or incomplete picture of what really happened and also hinder the investigation.

On the other hand, it is legal for people to use private cameras and smartphones to record work of police officers providing it does not interrupt their work. Unfortunately, sometimes police can get aggravated by civilians filming them and this leads to new arguments.

To prevent this from happening some states are passing bills to restrict or ensure people’s right to use their private devices and document unfair treatment of police or harassment without particular cause.

The bill is still in the making since there are a lot of arguments about whether this is a good or bad thing; if it will hinder police work and what effect will it have on The First Amendment rights.