The whole “Bricks and Mini-figs” debacle took the tiniest shred of belief I have left in US police accountability and absolutely nuked it from orbit.
Oops! The cameras were accidentally turned off. But if you can prove they weren’t, well then whoops! Here’s that footage you asked for… But all the faces are blurred and all the audio is deleted “to protect the innocent,” and for NO OTHER REASON, thanks for asking.
There will probably at best be ‘officer training’ with no meaningful accountability; uncensored body camera footage at least puts more pressure on officers to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.
The point of body camera footage is accountability; blurring the faces of the officers involved takes that away.
The whole “Bricks and Mini-figs” debacle took the tiniest shred of belief I have left in US police accountability and absolutely nuked it from orbit.
Oops! The cameras were accidentally turned off. But if you can prove they weren’t, well then whoops! Here’s that footage you asked for… But all the faces are blurred and all the audio is deleted “to protect the innocent,” and for NO OTHER REASON, thanks for asking.
It doesn’t have to. As long as there’s an actual trial or otherwise justice.
Internal investigation will find no wrong doing.
There will probably at best be ‘officer training’ with no meaningful accountability; uncensored body camera footage at least puts more pressure on officers to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.