New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Great D.C. Snowball Fight of 2009

January 4, 2010

Last month, Washington, D.C. police Det. Mike Baylor pulled his gun after his Hummer was pelted by some young D.C. urbanites engaged in a snowball fight. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko writes that the more interesting story isn't about Baylor so much as how social networking and the democratization of technology are holding government officials and the traditional media more accountable.

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