Opinion: How Is 1991 Different Than 2006?

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Fifteen years ago, the new technology showcased by a controversial LAPD beating was the hand-held video camera. In 2006, more than 677,000 people have watched the following video on YouTube:

And this time, the LAPD has a blog, where you can read retired LAPD captain Greg Meyer, a national advisory board member of the Force Science Research Center, argue that ‘the truth almost always lies deeper than the video,’ while a more suspicious group of commenters debates the William Cardenas case for all the brass to see.

Sean Bonner over at Blogging.la has been tracking the case for the past several days, as has LAist. For opposing-view takes, there’s Cop Watch L.A. and prosecutor Patrick ‘Patterico’ Frey.