Stop Or I’ll Text

It’s been a bad few weeks when it comes to news about police behavior. And this headline from the Daily News will not help much: Rookie NYPD officer who shot Akai Gurley in Brooklyn stairwell was texting union rep as victim lay dying.

+ Frank Serpico: “In the old days, they used to put a gun or a knife on somebody after a shooting. Now they don’t even bother.”

+ BBC collects some of the chatter from sites where police take to the Internet.

+ And for some contrast, let’s head to Iceland where last year they were protesting someone being killed by an armed police officer. For the first time in the country’s history.