Alabama is among the most restrictive states for disclosing body-camera footage when police kill loved ones. Surviving family members often must go to court to get access to the video, and even if successful, they usually can’t share it publicly.
  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 months ago

    Yeah, I think if that happened to my family and I knee they were keeping video evidence from me, it would be enough to turn me vigilante.

  • CodeName@infosec.pub
    17·
    6 months ago

    The footage should be in a publicly available national database. From all bodycam’s, from all police, they shouldn’t even have a choice in the matter. If they can turn them off conveniently when they are about to do crimes, or withhold the evidence like this, they are pointless.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      In my opinion, any time police are accused of anything, or an officer’s word is challenged in court, and they don’t have bodycam footage to back up their side, they should be automatically disbelieved as a matter of course. If it means a few criminals get off because of legitimate hardware failures, so be it… if the entire case was riding on police testimony, it wasn’t a strong case to begin with.

    • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      6 months ago

      I mostly agree, but the video should only be accessible to law enforcement involved in that recording, prosecutors, and other possible related legal jobs, and family of those recorded. A lot of personal information could be on any given video.