From the article, it looks like the only head that rolled was the whistle blower’s.
Well, we can’t have cops telling the truth, now can we?
How is this still acceptable. How.
Rarely will I take the side of the police (and here “police” means “the institution of policing at-large”), but I think I see their point in this case. The article says that the cops’ union wants the officers to be able to review their own body-camera footage when writing up reports, the Justice Department does not want that. I admit that I am fully unaware of the intricacies regarding these issues, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that a cop would want to write the most accurate report possible (ideally, anyway), and if that means referring to the body camera footage, so what?
Sure, from the cop’s perspective. But from the perspective of the public, I want to know that the cop is honest in writing his reports. ISTM this might be an opportunity to weed out the cops who routinely lie in their reports. If they can check their footage, then they’ll know what they can’t lie about. If they can’t, then they’ll be more motivated to tell the truth about everything, since they won’t know what’s in the footage that might reveal any lies in their reports.
I must confess that I hadn’t thought of it in that way.
I had* a friend that is a corrections officer. He would tell me how they would review the footage, then spend hours to get their stories straight so that it was consistent with what the camera showed.
Their report wasn’t accurate, but it was consistent with the footage.
*this and other stories in that vein is why the past tense is used here.
The last couple posts are exactly why the police should not be allowed to preview the footage to square up their paperwork. They write their reports as honestly as they can, full stop, and then we compare. That’s it.
Has their been any reporting that shows the representative(s) for the city government have taken this position in their negotiation with the police union? I sure hope so.
So, they admit Ohio’s National Guard, Major Gen. John Harris assaulted the reporter? Why isn’t HE in custody and facing charges right now???
Along with anyone who went along with this false arrest.
Holy Flurking Schnit!
My worst nightmare.
I am working on a novel in which this is done to my heroine while she is a prisoner. I had to research what happens to people locked in freezers. I’ll be honest, I wondered if I weren’t being a bit unrealistic – why would prison guards do that? I wondered. Not a fun example of life imitating art.
To torture him for making their job difficult.
Like when your pet komodo monitor lizard becomes troublesome so you put him in the cold room to make him torpid.
I spose coulda also gone in Jan. 7 and Beyond thread
I thought they had stopped this shit. /s
What shit do you refer to? Roughing up people for filming them, or manhandling teenagers?
As for manhandling teenagers, it will never stop. Especially if they’re poor and/or Black/brown.
As for roughing up people filming them, that’s been dialed back of late after court after court after court has ruled that it’s perfectly legal. However, as cockroaches scatter when the light is turned on, so, too, do cops hate having their actions recorded. And they’ll find other reasons to cock-block recording. The thing I seem them reverting to most these days is “officer safety,” which is vague and ad hoc and words like that.
I’m not defending anyone, but in this particular case, it does seem as if one bystander did get within a couple of feet of the cop. That’s generally a bad idea.
Both.
BTW, is your avatar Greg from How To Drink?