Police Captain Orders Officers To Turn Off Their Bodycams

[@LegalDissentUSA]

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[@AmericanAmy]

This is the the same place that arrested me before this Lawson. Lawson is running for office again.

[@eddiekorkis]

Any police officer who turns off their body warn camera is up to no good. If you can’t see this there’s something wrong with you! “Going dead” should be a felony.

[@mikeveis6393]

They're not police officers, they're SS soldiers of the American Gestapo

[@vertisce2845]

Turning off your bodycams should result in immediate dismissal from your job. Body cameras should be required for every officer on the job in every state. End police unions. End qualified immunity. Fire bad cops and restrict them from ever working in law enforcement again anywhere.

[@GreyKnight7777]

You're not wrong, but good luck enforcing that so long as police unions are legal.

[@vertisce2845]

@@GreyKnight7777 Which is exactly why step one is to end police unions followed by qualified immunity. After that, black listing corrupt cops will be easy.

[@funnyfarm5555]

@@GreyKnight7777 Unions have their place in protecting workers against bad employers and wagea and working conditions. When they want to protect bad police, then I have no use for them If an officer is involved in an incident, in many departments they have 3 days before they can be interviewed. If they come and arrest you you have no such right even though you are presumed innocent according to the constitution. They can interview you 24/7 (Sleep depravation), lie to you etc. to get you to finally admit to a crime you did not commit. I would tell them to come see me in three days and then we will talk. Meanwhile their cameras will go dead and they would beat the hell out of me. So much for our rights. If cameras are a requirement for employment then they should be fired.

[@russellf1339]

@@funnyfarm5555 in the age of information unions are utterly obsolete.

[@adolf3967]

I WANNA MEET THE COP THAT STOLE YOUR GIRL.

[@chairfacechippendale8540]

Tampering with evidence should carry a heavier penalty for cops.

[@AaronHorrocks]

Or just any penalty.

[@chairfacechippendale8540]

@@AaronHorrocks agree

[@mikeveis6393]

They're not cops, they're SS soldiers of the American Gestapo

[@prescottwilliams4637]

that coward captain needs to be put on trial

[@cdldriver2348]

$$ spent on bodycams for cops were NEVER meant to be turned off during the course of their duties including investigations. $$ spent on bodycams for cops were meant for transparency and to ensure cops don't do shady, illegal sh*t so the department, city, county & state are not sued into oblivion. Tampering with bodycams during the course of your duties should be a felony, fired and qualified immunity removed.

[@katrummel8045]

Exactly! Nothing but disgust with these thugish criminals

[@freedomoperator6502]

Any orders yelled while tazing someone are null. The person being tazed cannot comply, even if they wanted.

[@GreyKnight7777]

They mostly yell "stop resisting" which isn't a command to the person being arrested. It is said so that witnesses to the interaction will be mislead into thinking that person is resisting, even when it's not the case, so that escalating force can be justified in any subsequent report or hearing.

[@solventtrapdotcom6676]

@@GreyKnight7777 It's theatre. It's all for show. As long as they scream "stop resisting" they can do anything they want.

[@richardalmeida2646]

@@GreyKnight7777 You are so on point with your statement. For quite some time now, I’ve been trying to think of a phrase that encapsulates that behavior so it can be precisely and concisely described.I thought of phrases such as “perception management” or “narrative”manufacturing” but they don’t seem to fit like I want them to. I do know the behavior is called theatrically yelling out but that doesn’t capture the intent of it.

[@richardalmeida2646]

@@GreyKnight7777 Others Will do it too when they’re trying to convince other people around them of a lie. Adam Sandler did it in the movie Billy Madison when he yelled out really loud in that high school chemistry class “NO I WILL NOT HAVE SEX WITH YOU! Another thing cops will do is to tell somebody to stop doing something they’re not doing in the first place, to create the appearance in the minds of others that they are doing it, otherwise the cop wouldn’t be telling them to not do it. For instance, they will tell people that they need to lower their voice when the person isn’t talking loud in the first place. This and give them a veneer of justification to accuse the person of disorderly conduct. Another example is where they will escalate a situation themselves to justify their actions. An example of this is where the cops will continually tell somebody to just relax, when the person is relaxed. While the cops are saying this loudly they will get closer to the person and then arrest them and claim that they resisted arrest and were disorderly. They manufacture a crisis that gives them the justification to respond to the crisis so they can come out looking like the hero. They will claim to be the victim and the hero at the same time.

[@lexluther1642]

if they turn off the camera they should be charged with deprivation of rights, obstructing justice, tampering with evidence, and filing a false police report (which will always come afterwards)

[@Johnny.f.face1]

And Brady listed

[@lexluther1642]

@@Johnny.f.face1 felony convictions would solve all of the problems

[@honestgashandmade5831]

Every time I see a union representative open their mouth I'm shocked by the dishonesty. Lowest of the low.

[@Liverpoolboy01]

Police mafia!

[@abikeanditsboy3449]

_"Go Dead"_ means for the dog unit to _"Stand Down."_ Really? This just shows the level of contempt they police have to the citizens they allegedly serve that they think we'd actually believe that obvious lie. No officer in his or her limited mental capacity would accept a statement that BS from a citizen. The Chief literally said he wants _"teeth on him"_ referring to the mauling or street justice he wanted to impose on the suspect. Then the chief says _"go dead"_ and we're supposed to believe that every single officer present misinterpreted that statement and turned their body cameras off. No possible way. Every officer knew exactly what that meant and they knew exactly what was about to follow.

[@richardcooper8209]

Not to be confused with " play dead "

[@solventtrapdotcom6676]

They know they're lying. We know they're lying. They know that we know they're lying. They lie anyway. Welcome to communism.

[@JimmyHey]

@@solventtrapdotcom6676 Wait, what? Where does communism come into this? Those are asshole pigs, not communists?

[@peggyh8937]

They absolutely should be fired for turning off the body-cams in that instance and held criminally responsible for tampering with evidence.

[@barrysims9906]

Not as long as they control the cameras and investigate themselves.

[@eggpod4567]

That's why we need to fund more auditors

[@smoothcast]

There is NO good reason for an officer to be able to turn off a body cam. None. If there are legally protected images or conversations, the police attorneys can redact them before piblic release, and the public can sue in court to get a judge to decide if the information redacted was subject to an exemption from release under federal and state freedom of information acts. Turning off body cams is highly suspicious behavior and leads me to conclude that officers are about to knowingly break the law.

[@AmericanAmy]

Thanks you he is running for office AGAIN. THIS MAN WAS UNARRESTED AFTER I WAS ARRESTED FOR VIDEOING ON THE SIDEWALK WHICH THIS CHANNEL COVERED!

[@OGElites]

Takes years to be a lawyer but takes 9 months to be a cop 🤔 🤦‍♂️

[@lastremain7867]

takes longer to be certified/licensed to cut hair

[@acabf1275]

This is why id never shed a tear for these dead tyrannical state actors

[@freddyfredrickson]

Intentionally disabling a recording device is them "tampering with evidence". They should be charged with that crime in addition to any other crime that can be proven to take place while the recording devices are off. Bodycams need to be set so they cannot be disabled. They record from the second the officer goes on duty to the second they go off duty. Government employees have no expectation of privacy while performing their governmental duties.

[@Seannn94]

And instead of having to go back to the dept to the "docking station" to upload it to the computers, it should be automatically uploaded to a server/cloud as it's recording or as soon as the recording stops. I bet countless body cams have went missing ..

[@freddyfredrickson]

@@Seannn94 I agree. 1)The cameras should record in 1 or 2 minute segments saved to an SD card. 2)If the body camera is close enough to the car, it should also transmit the recorded files to the car to be stored on the car's onboard storage. 3) The car should use satellite or cell network to transmit a copy to a central cloud storage. 4) All of that should be happening for each 1-2 minute long file. 5) All videos recorded while the cop is on a call, should automatically be marked as important. 6) All video files from on call duties should be reviewed for evidentiary reasons and made available to the public(redacted if need be for personal information such as phone numbers) that can be viewed by anyone online within 24 hours of it's creation. Much of this task can be handled via programming and the redaction portion could be handled by a couple of people(3 shifts) 6 total per PD. This is the only way to guarantee transparency.

[@deboraughrodgers6301]

@@freddyfredrickson 😂 in a nonexistent utopian world 🤣 When I got the bodycam back, they had altered it so they looked like Angels‼️. Miraculously, the drivestun tasing to my throat and head disappeared; the 3 times I was strangled to the point of unconsciousness disappeared and the use of my body as a punching bag disappeared. And yet I had the burns from the taser, altered cervical spine from the strangulations and bruises and bruised ribs from the punching. All while I was in my driver seat with my seatbelt on and the truck running. Oh and they broke my steering wheel!

[@Mannard74]

8:13 So, the "defense" for the cops was basically THESE BODY CAMS IS HIGH TECH and TECH is HARD !!!!!!!

[@deboraughrodgers6301]

Low IQ Required For QI

[@GreyKnight7777]

Only early studies where body worn cameras were implemented show a slight change in police accountability. If you follow that data through for a couple of years, that trend reverses itself. The reason is that cops learn to work around the camera. The camera will fall off during a confrontation, or be pointed away from the action, or the officer's arm will obstruct the camera's view, etc. Conversely, studies have found that body camera footage is overwhelmingly used to defend police behavior, rather than indict it. So the cameras on the cops are there to protect the cops. It's very important that everyone understands that.

[@AaronAlso]

I have personally seen several cases of friends where the body cam was cut and edited to show only the evidence that the State thought helped their case and no other footage was ever release to the defense. I was able to get a friend acquitted simply by standing across the street and recording with my phone. Officers lied on the stand not thinking my footage would ever come into the courtroom.

[@solventtrapdotcom6676]

Police: "If we had cameras record everything, nobody could lie about us anymore!" Police: "Turn off the cameras so we can do evil and lie about it!"

[@SweetDav3]

Those cameras should be running 24/7 as long as they're on the clock the simplest fix don't have an off button

[@SmokinBlunts781]

He was already in cuffs and they thought he was reaching for a weapon?

[@bradwatson7324]

Cameras really interfere with the fun of being a cop.

[@Crowd_Surfer5.0]

Turning off your body cam in the middle of a situation is evidence tampering

[@goofyrulez7914]

Body cams need to be turned on at the beginning of an encounter and then a supervisor called out to turn it off. The supervisor will be held accountable for anything that happens to that video.

[@mimIsra1]

This is sickening 😢

[@kevindunleavy854]

Police body cams should be on their full shift.NO OFF SWITCH .. PERIOD !!

[@thomasdesmond2248]

I completely agree. The job of Officers is to investigate. Then if necessary arrest. It is the job of the District Attorneys and Judges. To decide if prosecution is necessary. The Police chief needs to be replaced.

[@Devildoc610]

No. If you want accountability, eliminate qualified and absolute immunity.

[@goldensteak4007]

"Will body cameras help keep law enforcement and government agencies more accountable?" Evidently not, they need more

[@Overonator]

That guys is funny, go dead doesn't mean turn off your cameras even though multiple officers did so at the same time after those words were said.

[@foxbodyblues6709]

BWC’s should not be able to turn off if the officer is outside the patrol vehicle

[@XJWill1]

The cops will always do whatever is necessary to protect themselves. If we want real change, we need to go after the courts. The courts need to throw out any case where the cops do not have bodycam footage at any time during the investigation or apprehension. Even if it only is missing for a short time, the cops case is invalid. Also, if a citizen is injured while cops are present and the cops do not have bodycam footage of it, the cop(s) should be, at a minimum, found guilty of criminal negligence and should lose their jobs and pension.

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

Protect Themselves from Avccountability, you mean Protect Themselves from Dishonoring the Police "OATH OF HONOR:!!!

[@andrewsnarr6474]

And they also get mad when we record with our own cams

[@cholo2les]

Should be a felony for tampering with bodycam.

[@lizcollinson2692]

Thanks for the digging this us much more detailed analysis than I often see. 👏

[@heateslier]

BWCs are in existence for over 15 years and once activated before an interaction with a person starts should not be turned off muted and or obstructed until the interaction is over!

[@AlexeiTetenov]

Keep Pressing!

[@victorshaver3250]

Kudos for cameras! Make a rock solid Policy on use. Enjoy all your narrating.

[@gatekeeperlion75]

Great informative videos! Thank you!

[@mimIsra1]

They deserve each other.

[@ctom4932]

That wasn't "domestic battery". That was kidnapping. Her claim she was drunk, I notice she's only saying that with him right there.

[@bobjohnson1389]

It's so unfair why won't people just be nice to us?

[@LIGHTWORKER-po9di]

Thank You 🙏

[@earlblackman7001]

Body cams will not keep officer honest , turning off the body cam , body cam falling off and pointing the body cam to away from what they are doing is an bad cop at work also leaving the body cam in the car or at home.

[@jimmy7610]

These offices should have been arrested and charged with there crimes. Firing them wasn't justice. They should be striped of there rights to ever hold a badge.

[@stevenl4494]

The order to go dead, combined with the outcome.....fired, AND indicted. First officer that caves and testifies, gets a lighter sentence. You're not just getting fired....

[@toditron]

8:02 Not only does it warrant termination, but it should result in prosecution. It is not easy to control yourself when adrenalin is pumping through your system, but when the suspect is down after the chase is over, and he is then being essentially compliant, any excessive use of force initiated after that point should be considered an assault, particularly in a case like this when the lead officer clearly has his wits about him enough to issue the directive to stop recording with the body cams, a clear expression of intent.

[@no3ll3mayb3rry9]

If the body cam is off the charge is GONE in my state!!!

[@rlmiller007]

Well if that isn't the craziest spinning of the facts. Why would you ever conclude that "go dead" is about the dogs? "Back the dogs down. Heal the dogs. Stop the dogs". Clearly his face didn't get beaten when he dropped to the ground. All those cops should be arrested.

[@debbiesullivan2630]

They should not be allowed to shut audio and video off period

[@mikeveis6393]

DEFUND THE POLICE!!!

[@MrComrad50]

Yes all cops should have them !

[@technine9662]

Why is this guy's wife not being charged with drunk driving then she admitted to getting behind the wheel and driving while intoxicated. There's been countless people charged with DUI because they were sleeping in their car trying to do the right thing and not drive drunk but because they had access to their keys they were charged. And this woman was on video driving and she claims to have been intoxicated.

[@siweq1986]

This interview at 8:00 with this union morron is a pure gold.

[@clintonhanson]

The only way that body cams are going to be effective is either there made tamper proof or there is extremely good policy in place at that department that states when to start, stop, and mute the recording!

[@johneagle9149]

Rogue Nation postes a video tonhis channel a few months ago. Of police responding to a guy who left his dog in the hot car. He wanted to body cam footage to see what took place before and during the interaction. It was lime a 10 min video. The cop mutes his body cam for like 99% of the video

[@walidbahhur8132]

A camera that Can be turned on/off or muted is worthless

[@BrooklynBalla]

Oh.....the head of the police union doesn't think they did anything wrong.What a shocker.

[@S.JerseyJim]

Gee what a surprise.

[@oddball-hi7ek]

Truning off body cams or mute them is tampering with evidence

[@osmanvincent1975]

Police body cameras should not have an off switch. If the officer had a supposedly malfunctioning camera or turns the camera off during any interaction with a citizen, and later there is a conflict over events or evidence that normally would have been available on the camera, that evidence should be interpreted as a matter of law in favor of the civilian and against the officer.

[@johnd.8224]

Eliminate public sector unions.

[@danoneill2846]

evil is NOT Brand NEW !!

[@MrRagequitnow]

Body cams on duty should not be able to be turned off. If they need to use the toilet, it's called a lens cap, mic stays hot at all times. I don't care if some cop has to edit out a toilet session later, that's the price you'll have to pay to redact evidence. It's called the cloud, the data storage argument won't work either. What I find real funny, is that bodycams are "new" to policing.

[@veger2001]

8:20 - I dont believe it for not even a second! All officers turn off the cams at the same time just after the command "Go Dead" and then a beaten suspect follows and we are suppose to believe that the command had nothing to do with it? WOW that cops must think we all a bunch of Turnips in a fields! Further more their should be NO reason at all for any cop to turn off their body cams in any situation while on the job. Cop turned off the their cams and then a badly beaten up suspect arrives at the station = All cops with cams turned off = All cops Fired IT should be as simple as that and the mire fact here that this cop does not believe those cops should be fire is just WHY so many citizens fear law enforcement as it shows that they believe that they have rights above ours and have rights to hide their mis doings.

[@AutobotWarrior]

Body cams should never be turned off while they are on duty. As soon as they start their shift it should be on the whole time until their shift is over, no different then going to work and cameras being in the building watching everyone while they are there

[@ericgardner5548]

God, I hate these police union reps...

[@KillaMilla0513]

Police show have no ability to mess with the cams or sound. It shows you why they don't like having out side people filming them.

[@ctom4932]

"Go dead" Yes, do it. Literally. BWC shouldn't have an off or mute function at all.

[@timtompkins8774]

Why do cops come up with these stupidest reasons and expect everyone to believe in. Go dead was for the canines but everyone turned their body hands off instantly after he said that

[@makjanks]

Criminals always try to hide their crimes.

[@sporty196071]

Those cops must think that everyone is stupid, they were mad and wanted to taze and beat this guy and they got away with it.

[@jdk3]

these insubordinate clowns need gone ASAP ,, so freakin sick of Oathbreakers who think they are above the law

[@redneckbryon]

Yes they will keep them accountable as long as the individual officers have no control over the cameras. Also anytime there’s an incident all cameras should be red flag for further review.

[@Bit-while_going]

Why would the cops turn off their body cans? Looks like they decided it was time for some retribution. Except that the captain covered for then using their purposely ambiguous code words "go dead" to defend their actions. So that looks more like him choosing favorites among rivals.

[@grumpyhawk509]

That's pretty ghetto for an officer to say, Fo Real... after saying he just hit me 🤣💯

[@donaldmack2307]

I feel like that woman is being abused and just staying with him for the $. I do not buy that with her body language. Nah.

[@ravagesoyjoy]

Solution: 80% guns...

[@austinwinston684]

Why do the bodycams have an "off" mode?

[@AmericanAmy]

The same agency that arrested me.

[@LadyAdakStillStands]

In 1966, Miranda v Arizona was to grant rights to ALL - suspects, criminals and citizens. LE departments and the unions despise this decision. They (felt/feel) it interferes with their ability to do effective policing. No more "rough 'em up attitude adjustments" on the way to jail. This "interference" has festered for over 50 years and Homeland Security has brought it back in abundance.

[@adolf3967]

Are you a lawyer?

[@lnloutsidework2581]

These thugs with badges need to get away from patrolling us

[@irayz2677]

They should just yell. Cut Take two. Action 🎬

[@tammyramey3219]

No un less they get charged for turning them off.

[@georgenada8466]

The go dead order was to the dogs. And the dogs turned their cameras off.

[@Fjcktoken]

They make millions stealing from the communities yet complain they can’t afford body cams etc.

[@WestFloridaAccountability]

Sounds like Gulfport Florida. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@robertcarly9183]

Get rid of the corrupt police unions and end qualified immunity and go after an officers pension when he or she has done something deliberately wrong or lied on reports etc. Body cameras for all and no turning them off.

[@hoseiimaging6215]

They think we sre stupid...says go dead means remove dog...even though all cameras goes out after the command...

[@MichelleKMann]

In this situation, where they did already have cams, had them on, perpetrator is about to be handcuffed with no weapons visible on the body camera and not reaching for anything, it was warranted that they be fired. They wish to hide from those they are sworn to protect. The officers clearly turned off their cameras.

[@rockymntnliberty]

From what the video showed on the councilman, an argument could be made that he was trying to stop her from driving drunk, at least on the part where he pulled her from the vehicle. The video in the elevator shows a completely different story. In the elevator video the councilman is the one who looks drunk and is abusing the woman. In the long run, I'm not real sympathetic at a woman who is abused and then goes back to her abuser, so either way the story goes, I'm not seeing her as a victim

[@solventtrapdotcom6676]

This.

[@animalou812]

Yes

[@Adroit1911]

Brand new to policing? What like computers, automatic weapons, tazers, radios, cars, and phones?? They seem to have trouble operating the all of the correctly.

[@John_Richardson_Meadows]

Sedition (look it up) is not a privilege of officers of the court; but is a capital crime that merits a capital punishment. But, when police departments, jails, prisons, the judiciary and whole city administrations have been taken over by the organized crime of seditionist police, jailers, lawyers, judges and executive administrators, then rape, mutilation, murder and more are treated as privileges of the "chosen" few.

[@J1WE]

Its blatantly obvious that NOBODY can be trusted with authority. The best protection for that is transparency. Those body cams should never be operated by the police themselves. If they need washroom or go on break, they radio in and it gets shut off for that time. Then when finished they call back im to go back live Officer Safety does not and should never include Job Safety. Also, if he was already cuffed and Go Dead was dog. Why did he appear bruised and beaten after cameras go dark? He resisted after cameras went off?

[@lindalucia6334]

Liar Liar! Shame on you! New camera technology???🙄

[@bobkundinger]

NOTICE!!! This is a NOTICE to all citizens of communities, towns, cities, counties, states, and the USA. What will it take for ALL of us CITIZENS to stand up to the inappropriate behavior of law enforcement and their governing entities (commissions & councils). At what point do WE as CITIZENS decide enough is enough. Why are WE as CITIZENS allowing these actors to COST us taxpayer's money to 'cover' for their misdeeds? Why are WE as CITIZENS allowing these actors to HURT the integrity of our communities, towns, cities, counties, states, and the USA? Why are WE as CITIZENS allowing these actors to CREATE bad reputations of our communities, towns, cities, counties, states, and the USA? Why are WE as CITIZENS allowing these actors to DEVALUE the value of our communities, towns, cities, counties and ultimately our properties. The reputation of our communities, towns, cities, counties create the VALUE!!!

[@tudorjason]

4:24 - *SIGH* She sold herself out.