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camochameleon | 6 years ago

> Reports say one officer was wearing a body camera at the time of the stop but it was knocked off during the struggle with Medlin and turned off when it hit the ground. It was off during the shooting and did not capture the teen's death. After Medlin was detained, the camera was reattached and turned back on to record, police said but the Chesapeake Police Department declined to release the body camera footage.

It is insane how often body cameras are 'knocked' or 'dropped' in these cases. Is the tech seriously that poor? This is not even the most ridiculous case; there have been times when five body cameras were all said to have malfunctioned at once, or even seven dashboard cameras. [1] [2, for non-paywall version]

How these forces are allowed to get away with this is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/06/28/...

[2] https://outline.com/sMHgWL

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westpfelia|6 years ago

Oh yea. Its absurd. Police departments probably pay hundreds of dollars on a 'camera' that can so easily 'fall off' and get 'turned off'.

When GoPro is sitting over going "hey guys we had a guy free fall 12,500 feet with one of our cameras on and it was fine"

Murder is murder and any time something like this happens and the camera was 'turned off' the cops should be charged with murder.

But hey even if the cameras were on would it matter? In Vallejo 6 cops shot a man 25 times who had fallen asleep in his car at a taco bell drive through. Dude was asleep, was surrounded, and shot 25 times. Best part? One of the officers was already being investigated for what you ask? Why possible excessive force that resulted in a death.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/vallejo-poli...

wallace_f|6 years ago

Should the footage should be streamed to a set of some independent civil rights orgs, like the IJ or ACLU.

Cthulhu_|6 years ago

Yeah they should stop what they're doing and get that sorted first, or be charged with hiding evidence. I mean what's the punishment for when a police officer doesn't have their badge or gun on them? Doesn't read people their rights?