It is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance

ON AUGUST 25th 2017 Johnnie Rush was walking home after a 13-hour shift washing dishes at Cracker Barrel, a restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina. Police watched Mr Rush cross a street without using a zebra crossing. They waited for him to buy beer and then confronted him about the jaywalking, an offence in that state. When he argued and ran away, they knocked him to the ground, used a Taser and punched him in the head.