Keep filming the police

Video of police officers on the job can help protect the public - and the cops.

If a quick-thinking seventeen year-old girl hadn’t taken out her cell phone and recorded Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd - and now we can definitively call it a murder, not just a killing - that horrifying incident might have passed into history:

If not for Darnella Frazier's quick thinking, Derek Chauvin might still be a Minneapolis police officer.

Instead, Chauvin is behind bars, convicted of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter after kneeling on George Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes.

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Floyd's aunt Angela Harrellson praised Frazier, who was 17 when she captured the footage that proved to be damning in Chauvin's trial.

"The sad thing is if it hadn't been for that 17-year-old girl Darnella, it would have been another black man that was killed by the police ... and they would have said, 'Oh, it was drugs, oh it was this,'" Harrellson said.

"And we would never have had the story we would have. And wouldn't be here today talking."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz publicly tha…