Photographer and activist Carlos Miller: "In the US the police are trained to control the people, they do not care about the Constitution"
"The police in the US are very scared, in other countries they are less aggressive and they use more psychology to solve problems," says Carlos Miller, a US photographer and activist, who was arrested 4 times for taking pictures of agents in public. In 'Interview', RT, the activist analyzes whether the police are heroes or, on the contrary, nothing more than a trained blue mafia to control people without paying attention to the Constitution.
Miller said that in the last 12 years in Miami (Florida, USA), he has been arrested four times for taking pictures of police officers in public while doing his journalistic work. During these arrests he was brutally attacked by the soldiers and had to appear before the courts, where he was once accused of up to nine counts of disobedience to the authority, even though he did not commit those alleged crimes.
Due to the series of police abuses to which he was subjected, in 2007 he decided to launch a blog where he has been reporting abuses committed by the security forces against citizens. But the guest of this program reported that at first many of his readers insulted him, because "everyone liked the police, they thought it was not bad".
Carlos Miller, photographer and American activist
All those who work in the criminal system [in the USA] they are a mafia
According to the interviewee, in the USA "All those who work in the penal system [Police, Prosecutor's Office and judges] are a mafia." "There are many policemen who believe they can do what they want because they are protected by law, but we can control their actions by recording them or taking pictures to reveal that some are not necessarily heroes," he added.
Miller insisted that the US police is "a blue mafia," although not all agents "are bad people, but the culture of the police is very corrupt (...) and it is difficult to be an honest policeman." "If you stop for a policeman you have to be ready to record," he said.
Police abuse in the United States: reality or myth?
The photographer opined that the aggressive attitude of the police in the USA. it is because the academy inculcates them that "the whole world" represents a danger. "That's why the officers are scared, they open fire when a person pulls out a phone thinking it's a gun."
At the same time, Miller pointed out that in the North American country, "the police train them to control the people, they do not care about the Constitution." He also criticized the "systemic racism" existing in the police ranks, which according to him, comes from the times of slavery and the federal government does nothing to change the situation.
For this reason, Miller intends to launch a journalistic project aimed at the minorities of that country. "If we want a real democracy, we have to start at the bottom: educate people so that they know their rights."
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