Quote:Like what? An officer can claim that he feared for his life when he killed an unarmed man. A perp can claim that he was cooperating when an officer tased him for trying to wrestle his way out of handcuffs. A camera exposes the truth in both situations.

A body camera doesn't get Hollywood movie angles and doesn't show the view of what the officer was seeing. A camera may cause more uncertainty because it may show or not show something the officer claims they saw or didn't see, but it doesn't mean the officer was lying. And of course, people still fill in any gaps that the cameras don't pick up with their own narrative.


There is a video of cops chasing a suspected felon and he retreats into the darkness in a convenience store parking lot. One dash cam shows what looked like the officers shooting a man who was simply running. A different dash cam right next to them showed where the perp was turning around with a gun. If that 2nd cam video doesn't exist, then it sure looks like a cold blooded murder with a planted weapon, doesnt it?

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