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by mrhottakes 9 days ago
It's important to keep in mind which bodycam vids make it to YouTube and which don't. You are seeing videos selected for a purpose.
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Some of these videos are the result of FOIA requests. Please, make FOIA requests and post these videos where the police are acting so egregiously. We deserve to know the truth about this!

Some less than positive-for-police videos I've seen-

- a weak police officer doesn't take control of the situation and the officer standing behind the first one is shot and killed

- an officer, while chasing a suspect, tazes him as he exits the median grassy area and enters a lane of traffic. The suspect was killed by traffic.

- a forfeiture case where someone's life savings (cash) were confiscated without due process during a traffic stop

Anything that gets views; police being polite and brutal are both fair game from what I see.