If their system works the way I believe it does based on my experience in the industry, it could only have been deleted by someone with access to the remote server, possibly the district manager.
So I ask again, what is your experience. Do you work in the industry now? Is it possible that this particular Burger King uses a system that you are not familiar with?
I mean, I suppose it is possible that new account is incorrect. Maybe the reporter misunderstood what he\she was told. But I have their professional rep vs anonymous internet person right now.
I left fast food in 2011. I work in grocery now and the surveillance system my current employer uses is similar (just on a larger scale).
Short of asking someone who works at that particular location I cannot be 100% certain, but I doubt that it is very different or that anyone at the store level has the ability to delete footage.
You didn’t answer the question.
I cannot say with certainty who did. I can say that I’m fairly certain the cops didn’t.
The district manager could have deleted it as a favor to the cops. He sees the cops as the good guys, protecting his business. He sees the victim as a criminal, a problem to be solved. The whole thing is just bad luck, and the cops didn’t mean to cross the line, they are good hardworking guys with tough jobs, and this other guy is just a POS anyway.
This is basically the made-up mind of most passively racist white people every time these stories emerge. You wonder how blatant it has to be before some of these people say, that’s not good.
The BK was 300 feet away from where the shooting occurred. Everyone involved, including the prosecution and the family of the deceased, agree that the shooting did not take place within sight of the BK’s cameras. What do you think was on that camera that showed the police “crossing the line”?
This has nothing to do with racism. The race of the people involved is a red herring.
When actual racism or misuse of police power starts occurring.
Do you have any idea how long it’s going to take for me to purge the mental image of the hissy fit you would throw if some fast-food minion were so disrespectful to the police as to throw them out the moment the second hand of the clock hit closing time?
I mean, we’re talking a spectacle that would make the Joker hearing that somebody else had offed Batman look like a model of sanity and restraint…
lol.
lol.
That there are such evidentiary problems gives great weight to making police body cams and police vehicle cams mandatory at times, and the data being stored each shift, and data being surrendered to an independent investigatory body whenever there is an incident or complaint. anything short of this smells of systemic cover-up
The victim’s family said it would show the events leading up the shooting.
Which is exactly what the officers did not want anyone to see. Even if you don’t believe they erased that portion of the video, you gotta admit that it’s a coincidence that strains credibility.
Also, from the cite:
This is the District Manager of Burger King. Although the article doesn’t state directly (and this is an example of poor reporting), his quote indicates that he, himself, was there at the time.
smapti, get help.
Since 2011, Windows has released 2 different operating systems and 4 different internet browsers. JAVA has released new versions about a dozen times. Hell, Apple releases a new iTunes version nearly every week! You don’t think surveillance systems have done some upgrades?
To say the technology does not allow a user to delete 86 minutes of video at the site it was it recorded seems far-fetched.
So, what is your opinion on situations where the cops did delete video, as shown in my link upthread?
Again: Footage Of Maryland Student’s Beating Goes Missing, Re-Appears Minus Some “Editing”
So, according to Smapti, the district manager could have done it but no one else. According to the actual district manager, the cops could and did delete the footage.
Hmm. Who to believe. …the guy who has experience in the fast food industry, albeit not for several years, our the actual DM who has experience with that equipment and restaurant?
Investigator fired for refusing to change reports that found that Chicago cops were at fault for shooting and killing black civilians.
Well, then, maybe he didn’t! Maybe he had no reason at all, just in a pissy mood! Didn’t have to have a reason, so maybe he didn’t have one! Or just not that one!
“The cops” didn’t delete footage in that video. A college employee who had direct access to the server as part of her job duties did.
You know, kinda like the BK district manager would have had.
No, If you read the article, the college “employee” was a University of Maryland campus cop who was married to an officer in the video in question.
So, “Lt. Joanne Ardovini” of the UMCP police dept. is just a “college employee”.
You are pathological when it comes to this kind of shit.
U-Md. officials seek inquiry of campus video in beating case
“Campus” being the operative word, not “cop”.