A Cop Watcher’s Story: El Grito de Sunset Park Attempts to Deter Police Brutality

A Cop Watcher’s Story: El Grito de Sunset Park Attempts to Deter Police Brutality
Year: 
2017
Minutes: 
6
Film Location: 
Brooklyn, NY

A Cop Watcher’s Story features activist Dennis Flores, who started El Grito de Sunset Park Cop Watch, an activist group that films the police in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This video shows wounds inflicted on a six-months pregnant woman as a result of police violence and police pushing street vendors to the ground. Flores argues that if cameras used by everyday people are not capturing these abuses, no one will believe that acts like these occur daily, so El Grito Cop Watch cameras observe and collect evidence of police brutality.