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Cop Says Pedestrian Killed by Colleague Had 'Limited Value'
Cop Who Killed Seattle
Pedestrian Dodges Felony
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Feb 22, 2024 3:59 AM CST

Cop Who Killed Seattle Pedestrian Dodges Felony

A colleague's remark in Jaahnavi Kandula case caused outrage

(Newser) - Prosecutors said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle police officer who struck and killed a pedestrian last year while responding to an overdose call—a case that attracted widespread attention after another officer was recorded making callous remarks about it. Officer Kevin Dave was driving 74mph...

Mom: Infant Stopped Breathing After Raid on Wrong House

Courtney Price claims police in Elyria, Ohio, were repeatedly told their target had moved

(Newser) - Courtney Price says she traveled from Kentucky to Ohio to seek medical care for her 17-month-old son, who was born premature with a lung condition and a hole in his heart. The single mother says a surgery to repair that hole has now been delayed as her son faces complications...

With Police Body Cameras, One Fundamental Problem
With Police Body Cameras,
One Fundamental Problem
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Dec 17, 2023 9:00 AM CST

With Police Body Cameras, One Fundamental Problem

Departments have wide latitude to refuse to release footage, investigation reveals

(Newser) - Police body cameras were supposed to change everything. But a decade after they became commonplace in departments across the US, one big problem has emerged, according to an investigation by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine . Simply put, police departments routinely refuse to release the footage, despite pledges of...

Cop Handing Out Stickers Chased, Killed a Mass Shooter

Body camera footage from Texas mall shooting is released

(Newser) - A police officer in Allen, Texas, was having a friendly chat with a mother and her two children, to whom he'd given stickers, when gunshots erupted a short distance away at Allen Premium Outlets on May 6. As a newly released body camera video shows, that officer immediately grabbed...

Cops Rushed Toward Cries for Help. It Wasn't a Person
Cops Rushing Toward Person in
Distress Get Quite the Surprise
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May 14, 2023 12:00 PM CDT

Cops Rushing Toward Person in Distress Get Quite the Surprise

Goat was making humanlike sounds that sent Oklahoma police officers into a panic

(Newser) - Two police officers in Oklahoma got quite the surprise earlier this week while coming to the aid of what they thought was a person in distress. CBS News reports that the Enid Police Department's David Sneed and Neal Storey responded Monday to a call reporting someone crying for help,...

Police Release Bodycam Video of Paul Pelosi Attack

Shows moment police open door and confront assailant next to Pelosi

(Newser) - Video released Friday shows the husband of Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home last year. The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him with...

Man Dies After Cops Pin Him Facedown for 5 Minutes

Mario Arenales Gonzalez's April 19 death compared to George Floyd's

(Newser) - Body camera footage just released by authorities in Alameda County, Calif., shows a man died in police custody after he was pinned facedown on the ground for five minutes. Mario Arenales Gonzalez, a Hispanic man, died April 19, one day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of...

Lawyer: Police Video Shows an Execution

Family sees 20-second clip of Andrew Brown Jr.'s death

(Newser) - Five days after Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man, was shot to death by North Carolina sheriff's deputies, members of his family were allowed to see a brief video clip of his killing. What they saw, one lawyer for the family said, was an execution. Chantel Cherry-Lassiter said...

Rochester Cops Shown Cuffing, Pepper-Spraying 9-Year-Old Girl

Bodycam footage out of upstate NY has department vowing to make a 'culture change'

(Newser) - "This video, as a mother, is not anything you want to see." That was Lovely Warren, mayor of Rochester, NY, on Sunday morning, reacting just before the city released body camera footage of an incident Friday afternoon involving the city's police and a local child. Per the...

Bodycam Shows Ohio Cop Shot Andre Hill Within Seconds

And no aid was given for some time

(Newser) - Officer Adam Coy didn't have his body camera on when he fatally shot Andre Maurice Hill on Tuesday, but he turned it on nine seconds later—and the camera's look-back technology captured the preceding 60 seconds. Police in Columbus, Ohio, released the footage on Wednesday, and it shows...

Body Camera's 'Look-Back' Function Captures Fatal Shooting

Columbus, Ohio, reels from another law enforcement shooting

(Newser) - A Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed a Black man in the early hours of Tuesday morning didn't turn on his body camera until after the fatal shot was fired. CNN reports Mayor Andrew Ginther disclosed that detail at a news conference, describing that belated activation as...

She Released Video of Raid on Her Home. Now, the Cops' Video

Police bodycam footage released after fired Fla. data scientist Rebekah Jones put up her own online

(Newser) - Police bodycam video taken of the Monday raid at fired data scientist Rebekah Jones' home was released Thursday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, with the agency saying it did so after its agents were "vilified" following Jones posting her own footage . Per NBC News , the police video...

Utah Cop on Bodycam: 'It's Going to End in a Shooting'

Officer worried about 13-year-old boy suffering mental break who 'hates cops'

(Newser) - Body camera footage shows a Salt Lake City police officer firing 11 shots at a 13-year-old boy suffering a mental health episode, who responds , "I don't feel good. Tell my mom I love her." The footage released Monday shows the Sept. 4 shooting of Linden Cameron , who...

Cop Repeats N-Word in Tense Confrontation on Bodycam

Sgt. Chad Walker insists he was repeating back what Black bar patron called him in Columbia, SC

(Newser) - A police effort to enforce a late-night alcohol ban in South Carolina turned ugly over the weekend after one cop was caught on video—recorded by bystanders and also by his own body camera—repeatedly saying the n-word during a heated confrontation with bar patrons. The Washington Post reports that...

Body Cam Footage: Cops Try Handcuffing 8-Year-Old

Attorney Benjamin Crump says he plans to file lawsuit

(Newser) - Handcuff an 8-year-old? Florida police tried it in 2018 but found the boy's wrists too small for the cuffs, NBC News reports. Attorney Benjamin Crump tweeted bodycam footage of the incident Sunday, which has already racked up 2.3 million hits: "Unbelievable," he writes, adding that Key...

New George Floyd Video Prompts an Investigation

'Daily Mail' publishes more of officers' body cam footage in fatal arrest

(Newser) - Authorities in Minneapolis are trying to figure out how Britain's Daily Mail got hold of more footage of George Floyd's fatal arrest. The outlet published roughly 10 minutes of video from ex-officer Thomas Lane's body camera and about 18 minutes from the bodycam of former officer J....

Cops Release Video of Rayshard Brooks Killing
Cops Release Video of
Rayshard Brooks Killing
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Jun 14, 2020 12:10 PM CDT

Cops Release Video of Rayshard Brooks Killing

Police officer Garrett Rolfe is seen shooting the father of 4

(Newser) - Now the world can see how Rayshard Brooks' life came to an end. Atlanta police released the video—two body cams ( here and here ), dashcam , surveillance —after a Saturday press conference, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "It does appear in the video that [Brooks] is fleeing from...

Police Chief Decries 'Horrible' Use of Force on Black Man

Police officer Tyler Timberlake charged with assault after using stun gun on 'man in crisis'

(Newser) - A Virginia police officer was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery Saturday after being accused of using excessive force on a black man. The Fort Hunt Herald reports the incident took place Friday around 1:30pm in Mount Vernon, where an apparently disoriented victim—described by the Fairfax County Police...

In Video, Lori Vallow's Husband Speaks Poorly of Her

Charles Vallow says she's 'lost her mind'

(Newser) - What did Lori Vallow's late husband think of her? Thanks to police bodycam footage, we now know. KPNX obtained the video, which shows Charles Vallow speaking to police outside his Gilbert, Ariz., home on Jan. 31, 2019—less than six months before he was shot to death by Lori'...

Footage of 6-Year-Old's Arrest: 'Please, Give Me 2nd Chance'

Florida police officer fired after restraining, arresting Kaia Rolle after a tantrum

(Newser) - A police officer's bodycam shows a 6-year-old Florida girl crying and begging officers not to arrest her as zip ties are fastened around her wrists at a charter school. The video Kaia Rolle's family shared with the Orlando Sentinel and other outlets Monday shows the girl being arrested...

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