I think it is acceptable and laudable to include the name of a police officer engaged in unjustified brutality. Call if doxxing if you like, but in a case like this it has the potential to bring accountability, and to righteously damage his employment prospects. A policy that uniformly bans such identification, particularly by a public official with so much power and such broad immunity, helps perpetuate the injustice.
I don't think we'd be better off if we never heard the name "Derek Chauvin".
Maybe I'm missing something nuanced here but to me this seems very simple. Police are public servants. Imagine if we couldn't name politicians for their behavior. ("Someone voted for a law you don't like? Posting pictures of them is not allowed!")
Notice we're just talking about any behavior here; good or bad doesn't matter. The actions of a public servant on the job should be subject to scrutiny by the public, particularly when behaving publicly (as opposed to confidentially. For example we don't necessarily want to leak undercover/spy information)
This cop isn't some private security worker who is innocent until proven guilty. By becoming a public servant, you are held to a higher degree of scrutiny. If you don't like it, no problem! The answer is equally as simple: quit and work in the private sector, end of story.
any nontrivially size social media needs to be concerned by the virality of negative conduct of its viewership, regardless of the righteous nature, particukarly because its quite easy for outsiders to manipulate the context.
Here is what occured after the incident. (I am not in support of reddit's action, just providing context.)
> John Pike was subsequently fired, despite a recommendation that he face disciplinary action but be kept on the job. As of August 2014, Alex Lee was no longer listed in a state salary-database as working at UC Davis.
> In October 2013, a judge ruled that Lt. John Pike, the lead pepper sprayer, would be paid $38,000 in worker's compensation benefits, to compensate for “[the] suffering he experienced after the incident”. Apart from the worker's compensation award, he retained his retirement credits. The three dozen student demonstrators, meanwhile, were collectively awarded US$1 million by UC Davis in a settlement from a federal lawsuit, with each pepper-sprayed student receiving $30,000 individually.
Here is the legal declaration by John Pike "detailing harassment and threats to him after he was identified as an officer who was involved in the Incident."
I don't think we'd be better off if we never heard the name "Derek Chauvin".