re: #183 withak

If it turns out the dash cam and/or jail footage has been edited… how brazen is that? Don’t law enforcement agencies usually claim malfunction or a simple “the tape got lost” when they want to cover something up?

It really would not be shocking at this point to me. I thought I’d seen it all with Ferguson, but then Cleveland upped the ante by actually allowing the cop to file paperwork for charges on a dead kid a week after the investigation had already begun. And then Baltimore went one step further when I found out that the cops in the Gray case had deliberately left out a stop they made from the official report that was only learned about due to a civilian security camera.

So to learn that a department has gone so far as to edit film to help support a cop’s defense? It wouldn’t shock me, but it would make me wonder if there’s any point at all in body cameras if cops are showing they’ll go so far as to edit official footage to cover their own asses.