• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours ago

    Also, bodycams were always a cop wishlist item. They control the footage, does anyone think if ICE had bodycams there would be transparency? Of course not, there would be a ton of “malfunctioning” bodycams when they did some shit, and in any case where a civilian showed even a hint of resistance or that they might fight back, the footage would be used to bury them.

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      6 hours ago

      If the bodycams came with a law that said  that in case of malfunction of the bodycam the one to be trust is the civilian all those “malfunctioning” bodycams wouldn’t have any problem working right.

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        Yea it should be the body camera footage vs the civilian testimony. The cops shouldn’t even get to tell " their side". Camera wasn’t working? Guess the civilian testimony is 100% true.