What's really tough about these "take down" scenarios is that the actual event never happens in a vacuum. It's not just a matter of stepping into the scenario and responding -- it often follows a high speed chase, or a foot chase, and in either a screaming mob, or a dark alley, or any number of other variables.
A friend of mine, a DPS officer, was charged once with excessive force in the apprehension of a criminal. He didn't have a dash cam, but another responding vehicle did, and the video was quite incriminating. Even I thought he had acted excessively. But that was without the "history".
After hearing the 911 calls, the radio traffic between him and the station, and a number of other factors, it was quite easily "no billed" by the grand jury.
But ONLY watching the dash cam, they would have indicted him.
A friend of mine, a DPS officer, was charged once with excessive force in the apprehension of a criminal. He didn't have a dash cam, but another responding vehicle did, and the video was quite incriminating. Even I thought he had acted excessively. But that was without the "history".
After hearing the 911 calls, the radio traffic between him and the station, and a number of other factors, it was quite easily "no billed" by the grand jury.
But ONLY watching the dash cam, they would have indicted him.
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