Interesting... Cop in a hated district desperate for public support happens to be "shot in the arm" in the same minute he turns off his body camera.
No gun, no suspect. The cop turns off his camera, notices a bad guy acting shady, so he starts pursuit. bad guy fires a gun which wounds him, and bad guy disappears. This official report, of course, is much different from the "original" story which the police leaked to the conservative media. Hmmmm.
Ferguson Police Dept ---"Body Camera OFF"Police also confirmed today that the wounded officer had a body camera, but that it was turned off during the incident.
St. Louis County Police Sgt. Brian Schellman, a police spokesman, said he did not know why the camera was off.
Ferguson police officers began wearing body cameras on Aug. 31, three weeks after a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed black teenager.
Police originally reported late Saturday night that the officer spotted two suspects trying to break into a business and that when confronted, one of them pulled a gun and fired at the office, wounding him in the arm.
Police, however, now are describing a different scenario: that the police officer, during a business check, saw a male subject in the rear of the Ferguson Community Center. When he approached, the person began to run and the officer followed on foot. During the pursuit, the man spun around and fired at the officer, who was hit in the left arm, before disappearing in the wooded area behind the center.
MORE:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-searching-for-only-one-suspect-in-ferguson-police-shooting/article_21e165ad-1f7f-5ae8-b30a-fb9d9dc40afe.html
Bwahahahahahah this cop beats the shit out of people but never has camera on for that. I wonder if there's a camera for the Ferguson shooting itself. That should clear that cop of everyhting, right? Wink
Cop is trying to get medical leave now.
The officer, who has a history of not capturing encounters on video in which he used force, is on desk duty while an Internal Affairs investigation is underway.http://www.abqjournal.com/404223/news/apd-no-lapel-video-of-mary-hawkes-shooting-2.html