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Which do you think is worse: police officers who don’t know the law, or officers who know the law but deliberately ignore or even mock it?

That question has been on my mind since I saw the video made by Mike Miller, who observed two police officers making an arrest in broad daylight in a Toronto parking lot on Sept. 14. The video, which was published online by the Toronto Star on Oct. 27, shows a police cruiser with two officers standing beside it, apparently arresting two men whose faces have been deliberately blurred by the video editor. Another cruiser pulls up and two officers emerge. One of the officers from the first cruiser points at Miller and says to the new arrivals, “Could you turn the camera on that guy over there?”

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I expected the new arrivals to return to their cruiser, pull out another video camera and train it on Miller. But they didn’t. Apparently I didn’t understand the code words used by the first officer, but the two new guys did. They knew he was not asking them to film the videographer; he was asking them to prevent the videographer from recording.