see url:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/09/us/breonna-taylor-body-camera-lawsuit/index.html
see full report...It wouldn't surprise me...and body cams don't
necessarily provide evidence of all police misconduct...particularly if
they are edited or kept secret in some way, or not switched on, or
covered over...but they are a helpful guide...when used in conjunction
with other evidence...
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Attorneys who represent the family of Breonna Taylor have sued the
Louisville Metro Police Department, saying they may have given
"misinformation" to the public about the use of body cameras on the
night the Black woman was killed in her home in Kentucky.
More body camera footage, if it exists, could help clarify what happened
during the March 2020 raid on Taylor's apartment, which helped catalyze
nationwide protests last summer over how police treat Black people.
The suit, filed Wednesday in Jefferson County, claims officers involved
in the raid had been issued body cameras that were programmed to
activate automatically in circumstances like those in play during and
after the raid.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has said the killing of Taylor, a
26-year-old EMT and aspiring nurse, wasn't captured on video because
officers at the scene either didn't turn on their body cameras or
weren't wearing them at all, CNN has reported.
But signals from police vehicles near the scene could have triggered
cameras used by the department to start recording automatically, the
lawsuit claims, meaning more footage may exist.
Officers had been issued Axon Flex 2 cameras that are designed to signal
nearby cameras to record when a police vehicle's light bar activates,
the suit states. At least one officer who was part of the raid and
"dozens of other LMPD members" who responded in police vehicles to it
had "lightbars that were activated at one time or another," it adds.
"Simply put, it would have been difficult for most of the LMPD members
with body cameras ... to not have had their Axon body cameras activated
at one point or another" during the events related to the raid at
Taylor's home," the suit states.
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