Ryan Milner, age 22, was stabbed in the chest in Ontario, Canada, at a parking lot after a hiphop concert at a nightclub with some bloke called Sean Price. Milner died shortly after. So where does Youtube fit in?
A George Gallow, age 24, turned him self in and has been charged with second degree murder. The reason? Media buzz and the fact that he’s on a now removed Youtube video, wearing a baseball cap with the word “Jokerâ€. Obviously a bit too easy to identify and tie to the scene of the crime, since Gallow decided to give up and just step back.
“This is the first time Hamilton police have utilized video Web posting in an investigation, and to the best of its knowledge, the first time that law enforcement has ever used it as a direct investigative tool,” Staff Sgt. Jorge Lasso told a news conference.
Source: News.com
Originally posted on December 21, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
The police in Winnipeg are watching YouTube too .. recently, they caught a couple of dangerous drivers speeding down our main Portage Avenue here ..
I say good for the people taking the pictures, and good for the cops looking at them!
The irony is in former days you would have had to drive to the police station hand over some video and it would have been a pain in the rump.
In today’s world. You just upload it to Youtube, Myspace and send an email.
It’s that easy.
Big Brother is really just Little Brother times thousand today…
Yup totally T.