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Seattle Arrest Questions Cops' Use of Dash Cams

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Seattle Arrest Questions Cops' Use of Dash Cams - Yahoo! News

Two friends who had planned to visit a Seattle sports bar claim they ended up being kicked, arrested at gunpoint and held in jail for several hours by a cop who said he intended to "make stuff up."

Part of the arrest of Josh Lawson, 23, and Christopher Franklin, 22, on Nov. 16, 2010 is caught on tape by the officer's dashboard camera.


But key moments of the arrest that should have been captured on video are missing and it was unclear whether the officer intentionally neglected to turn on the dash cam. None of the released footage shows the officer in the moments he made the stop or kicked Lawson.
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Watch the video. I hope they win their case. The best part is that they found claims against the cop "unfounded". A cop says he's going makes "stuff up" and there's nothing to see here? Just one more case of a cop getting away with **** like this.
 
Makes a good case for why the officers themselves should not be the ones turning the cams and mics on and off.
 
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