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[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Bottom-line. I'm not sure I can be a cop. I'd slap the sh*t out of majority of these folks.

Oh the shit police put up with every single shift is crazy. I trained BJJ with a few, all good people, in it to truly make a positive difference, and the stories were outrageous. I couldn't do the job and I am a very even keeled person.

One who was a K-9 officer, so he was all over Phoenix and usually in bad situations, said that on almost every call people come out of the woodwork, taunting them, threatening them, filming them trying to provoke a response. It's absolutely crazy.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

If you think cop body cams are fun, Ontario is apparently going to trial having youth soccer referees wear body cams....

WHAT?

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2

I went through a binge of the bodycam videos after Edward first posted that 20 something-year old drunk driver from Florida. Some of them are really entertaining, while others are sad. Addiction, mental health issues, homelessness, you name it. Some of these people never had a chance.

Whilst on the subject of YT, I've been pretty enamored with this channel. This guy does reporting in the craziest places and isn't very exploitative about it like many wannabe journalists.

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan - YouTube

The SF and Philly videos... whoa

The Channel 5 guy is fantastic with some really thought provoking videos. Very good storyteller.

And yeah, some of the body cam stuff on youtube is 100% mental illness or addiction, but not all by a long shot. There are plenty of entitled douche bags who think they are smarter than the law, screw around, and find out.

As I said, i watch both sides of these things and the videos themselves are fascinating to me as is the youtube comments. You always hear about how different stops happen depending on the race of the person arrested, but I just don't see it in "most" of these videos. Usually, it's just the way the person acts that gets them in trouble.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Edward64

OTH here are some bodycam videos that shows you what cops have to put up with in (mostly) non-violent stuff. Think of it as "Cops" for traffic violations and stuff.

Most common cop saying: stop or stop resisting
Most common perp saying: I didn't do nothing/anything

Note to self. If a cop stops me, first word from me is: Don't talk to me, I want a lawyer.

Just a guess, but I'm going to say alcohol is the cause of 50%+ of these bodycams.

[RainMaker]

Body camera video shows Tallahassee Police Department Officer planting evidence in a DUI arrest.

The video shows Officer Oliver pouring out a sealed bottle of liquor and tossing it in Calvin Riley Sr.’s passenger seat before arresting Riley for a DUI. pic.twitter.com/bVZklLAXyC

— Our Tallahassee (@OurTallahassee) April 3, 2024

[Edward64]

I've seen several videos but none start-to-finish without some sort of MSM edits on the Dexter Reed shooting.

But from what I've read, Reed was stopped, didn't follow police orders and did seem to act suspiciously (rolled window up when told to keep it down and roll down back window), supposedly he fired first multiple times, the cops shot back.

To me, assuming Reed did fire first, it was a justified shooting. Many, if not majority, of 96 shots seem to be when the guy was still in the car. However, what doesn't seem justified is the continued shooting after the guy was outside, on the ground (video said one cop shot 3 more times but there may have been more).

Cops fired about 96 times over 41 seconds, killing Dexter Reed

[JPhillips]

96 shots in a residential area is absolutely insane.

[illinifan999]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I've seen several videos but none start-to-finish without some sort of MSM edits on the Dexter Reed shooting.

2024-0003052 - Civilian Office of Police Accountability

[Edward64]

Thanks. I looked at the videos of the 4 officers. I know they said the perp fired first and sounded like multiple shots, and although that is likely, all I heard were the shots, nothing obvious that the deceased actually pointed a weapon and shot at the LEOs.

Assuming that is confirmed, seems like a legit shooting to me. I would like to know the purpose of the stop, the videos started with 3-4 cops getting into a vehicle.

Good thing they had body cams but it would be great if they had "shoulder" cams. You could tell the LEOs were crouching or bent over and there wasn't a good angle in numerous sections.

[miami_fan]

Act I

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Act II

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Act III

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