If and when federal military troops move into Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner wants residents to resist authoritarian incursion with their phones.
“When … people are trying to do things that do not withstand scrutiny, we can video that,” he told the crowd at a West Philadelphia town hall, the first of a citywide series called Be the Light, Bring the Light that he is holding to share strategies for resisting a potential National Guard deployment. “There are some people who like to erase history. We are going to record history. We are not going to let the history be erased.”
The cellphone cameras of vigilant Philadelphians, Krasner explained, will be critical components of documenting – for the courts and posterity – violations of civil or constitutional rights that may occur…