CNN: Can cell phones stop police brutality?

CNN: Can cell phones stop police brutality? by Laura Ly:

Millions of people have now seen the video.

Eric Garner, standing on a sidewalk, asks the NYPD officers surrounding him, “What did I do? What did I do?”

Garner, 43, raises both hands in the air and tells the officers not to touch him.
Moments later, he’s on the ground while a plain-clothes officer places him in an apparent choke hold.

Garner gasps, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.”

His words are muffled as his face is pressed into the pavement.

By the end of the video, Garner is lifeless on the Staten Island sidewalk.
The video went viral. Garner’s death sparked protests across the country, thrusting into the spotlight the issue of police brutality on unarmed citizens. Citizens who, in increasing numbers, have taken to arming themselves with their own kind of weapon — their cell phones.