[…] The McBride incident got me thinking about a trend that has been emerging overseas.  The prevalence of mobile devices with rich media capability and the ability to post content created on those devices to sites like YouTube, Flickr, TypePad and Vox (in fact the whole mobile blogging movement) poses a challenge to public officials who abuse their positions of authority.  We read reports about how the Ekhurleni Metro Police who arrived on the scene of McBride’s accident bullied bystanders and witnesses, threatened them and, I believe, even assaulted one person. […]