News @lemmy.world BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Raleigh cops call release of body camera footage "dangerous" (when they raided the wrong family).

indyweek.com Raleigh cops call release of body camera footage "dangerous"

Raleigh cops told a judge that allowing the public to see body camera footage of a botched raid of a local family's home would be dangerous.

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The RPD pointed out that an attorney for the Abbouds had released home security footage of the raid online, which the police said made releasing the body camera footage redundant. At the same time, the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might expose confidential information about search warrant execution or damage officers’ reputations.

You busted in a door and pointed an AR-15 at a baby. Your reputation should be fucking damaged.

Raleigh police “wrongfully executed a ‘Quick Knock’ warrant”—meaning they kicked in the door before the Abbouds had a chance to open it[...]

This is just a no-knock raid. Let's not pretend knocking on a door a half second before pulling out the battering ram is some magical third category of warrant: no-knock raids should be banned, and whatever the fuck these cops did should be considered a no-knock.
- Somehow the "your honor, the evidence will damage my reputation" seems to be work quite well when you're a cop or millionaire.
- I went to their Facebook page and nobody in Raleigh seems to even know this happened.
  
  Can confirm. I live in Raleigh, and this is the first I'm hearing about this.
- Every time we make a rule they make up some new bullshit to keep doing the things we banned.
  
  Blame the Supreme Court. THEY are the dudes making up rules that let cops (and government officials) off the hook. Rules that don't apply to you.
"If you don't have anything to hide, what are you afraid of?" ;)
- Man, the world has gotten to the point where obvious logical inconsistencies don't even register as surprising anymore. Somewhere in my brain I still know that they should but I'm so desensitized to them that I can't even laugh about how absurd they are.
  
  Hate to break it to you, but the world has always been full of logical inconsistencies and you are just more aware of them as more information has become available.
- Living in a fucking fascist nation.
"We can't release the footage, it would be dangerous."
But the family agreed to release it.
"Not dangerous for them, dangerous for me!"

Whole thing seems like a poorly written SNL skit.
- And how the fuck can this judge decide “it has no public interest?” That shouldn’t be something one person gets to decide.
Nobody has written a hit song called "Fuck the Fire Department!"
- They did, but - if you listen to it, you'll find that your point still stands. :D
  
  https://youtu.be/7JkrJUAg8aI
  
  (I suspect the song is ^not actually about the Fire Department.)
  
  Heh. There's been case studies of that literally happening, but it's always been one member likes fire too much, not systemic.
  
  "This is fine..." absolutely killed me.
  
  Thanks for this. It's on spotify too :)
  
  I said a "hit song".
- Lol made me imagine firemen standing next to a burning house and drenching the one next to it with their hoses.
  
  All Houses Matter
  
  Firefighters pull up to a black family's home, burn it down, and charge them with arson.
Dangerous for their ability to keep their jobs and reputation.

Skill issue + ACAB
It's very dangerous for them to expose their complete and repeated incompetence to the public. One of these days the public might even think that cops might be capable of doing something wrong.
Serves no interest to the public who pays for these bodycams. Yeah right.
Yep. Dangerous. For them. Color me shocked
the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might damage officers’ reputations.

RPD attorney Sherita Walton said that the raid was “valid on its face” and insisted that none of the officers did anything wrong.

State Bureau of Investigation agents confused Abboud with a neighbor who is also of Arab descent—the police refused to pay for the damage
If enough "dangerous" body camera footage got out, someone might finally do something about it.
- I don't know anything about this, so forgive me if I'm being ignorant, but is there some way to hack the footage and post it online?
  
  There's always a way. It'd likely be through social engineering rather than technical means. All comes down to having a Snowden-like person willing to put themselves at risk of prosecution to pull it off.
abolish the police. We don't need these gangsters breaking down our doors like that in our community
- @Uranium3006 @BonesOfTheMoon
  
  They should be replaced with boy scout type people
- It's one step from abolishing the police to opening up your door to thieves and asking them to shoot up your house
  
  I think you've confused abolishing the police with calling the police.
  
  Funny thing is that cops have told people to give into thieves making an already shitty argument even more moot.
  
  https://globalnews.ca/news/10359055/leave-car-keys-the-front-door-to-avoid-home-invasion-toronto-police/
  
  And when has police prevented thieving? At best they come after the fact.
  
  Tell me you've never seen a real B&E without telling me you've never seen a real B&E.
Man, these cameras sure sound dangerous.

I mean, what are the poor police supposed to do? Not be a bunch of cunts? That's not why they got into this job!
"Releasing the footage might harm their reputations."

Don't you just station your troops in a different district and call it a day?
it will be fucking dangerous, yes. Professional suicide, even! And I like being the law, cuz it means you ain't.

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