Two-phone standoff after cop stops man for 'walking with hands in pockets'
In Michigan, a police officer stops a man who apparently was doing nothing wrong. They both pull out their mobile phones and film each other. ● We once thought that, in the future, we'd all be filming each other. That future is now. And sometimes we're doing it to prove that what happened to us really happened. In the latest cell phone footage of an encounter between a police officer and a citizen, both parties decide to pull out their phones and record for posterity. What will the future make of it? The footage shows a police officer in Pontiac, Mich., stopping a man for apparently suspicious behavior. What was the man doing? Walking with his hands in his pockets. The man instantly pulls out his phone and starts recording the encounter. Uploaded originally to the Facebook page of Brandon McKean on Thanksgiving Day, it's yet another bracing reminder of what sometimes goes on between authority figures and those they deem suspicious. African-American men, for example. There is no evidence that McKean did anything wrong. However, the officer explains: "You're making people nervous." When McKean wonders what he's done, the officer replies: "Yeah, they said you had your hands in your pockets."