12-04-2014, 12:33 AM
(12-03-2014, 09:44 PM)Duchess Wrote: I just heard someone say that if that 14 minute video showing exactly what went down and no indictment was forthcoming what makes us think cop cams would be a success.
The body cams aren't necessarily gonna change the outcome when there is already other video/audio available.
But, when an incident goes down and there is no surveillance or eyewitness video, the body cams (and dash cams) provide a key piece of evidence.
If no one had recorded the Garner choke-hold incident, there would only have been a verbal police narrative as to what went down. Dead guys can't talk and eyewitnesses are inconsistent. We probably would have never heard of it. It woulda likely been positioned as just another case of a big black thug who resisted arrest and had to be killed by cops in self defense. A small blip in the news.
Body cams help ensure that both sides are at least visually represented when the incident narrative is told, in any environment.