Showing posts with label Body Cameras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Body Cameras. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Tough job--cops must make split second decisions

January 27, 2015 Body Cameras , BuzzFeed 0 Comments
Graphic Body Cam Video Shows Police Shooting In Oklahoma

Jim Dalrymple II, Jan. 24, 2015, BuzzFeed

Police said they released the video in an effort to be transparent. Muskogee Sgt. Michael Mahan said that “it is our belief that the video clearly shows the suspect pointing the gun at the officer.” Mahan also told KFOR that “from everything we can see in the video, the officer responded appropriately.”

After the shooting, police found a loaded gun near Walker’s body, KFOR reported.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Protects them, too

November 11, 2014 Body Cameras , Columbus Dispatch 0 Comments
Eyeglass-Mounted Video Cameras Earn Police Respect

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Dean Narciso, Nov. 10, 2014, The Columbus Dispatch

The officers raced to the high-priority call, where parents were fighting and a young child was present.

The Sunbury police officers quickly learned that a gun was in the kitchen and went in to get it. A tense situation was easily defused; that is, until the father accused the officers of illegally searching his home and seizing weapons and a knife.

If not for the officers’ eyeglass-mounted video cameras, the case might have brought charges of police abuse, Fourth Amendment violations and a lengthy investigation. Instead, video from the pencil-size cameras, downloaded back at the station, showed the officers simply doing their job.

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