A security camera on McAllister Street in San Francisco in 2019.
Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle 2019
People across the United States watched in horror last month as surveillance camera footage showed the fatal beating of motorist Tyre Nichols by a group of Memphis police officers.
Mounted on a utility pole, the camera that recorded the images was part of a broad network across the city meant to capture footage of criminal activity and transmit it back to a police command center. The network, called “SkyCop,” is monitored by police and meant to prevent violence. In this instance, it captured police engaging in violence.
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