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I read that the judge has finally made the tapes from the cops’ body cams available to the public.
They are stunning to watch, especially since Huntsville’s mayor continues to support Darby, even after the conviction. Having had a chance to watch the tapes well in time to pull his support, instead the mayor went in the opposite direction.
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I watched them & read about it. Did it ever come out what Darby removed from the squad car that he covered the camera for?
 
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How Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon (Published 2021)

A Times investigation into a common defense for shooting motorists found that some officers had put themselves in danger. Others appeared to face no peril at all.
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PHENIX CITY, Ala. — On a Sunday in May 2017, a patrol car sat outside the city’s oldest public housing project, waiting for anyone acting suspiciously. The two police officers heard Cedric Mifflin before they saw him, blasting music from a silver Mercury Grand Marquis. Then they tried to pull him over: He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
Mr. Mifflin, a 27-year-old Black man, kept driving. What happened next is disputed, but how it ended is certain. Officer Michael Seavers leapt out of the patrol car, drew his gun and fired 16 times at the moving car. He thought Mr. Mifflin intended to run him over, he said later.
“I had never felt the fear that I had at that moment,” Officer Seavers, who is white, told investigators in a statement. He said he thought of what a vehicle can do “to a human body and how I would die if I didn’t react.”

The officer’s defense of killing Mr. Mifflin, who wielded neither a gun nor a knife, is one repeated over and over across the country: The vehicle was a weapon. In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed people dead over the last five years, those words were routinely used to explain why police officers had fired at drivers.
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I think I read somewhere in this thread that we were asked to tell some good stories about cops, not just bad. So here goes…

I was recently driving thru Hillsboro on a state highway and got pulled over for speeding by the local policeman. Hillsboro has the reputation of being one of those communities that lean too much on tickets and fines to raise money.

So imagine my surprise when the cop gave me a warning ticket. I was so grateful.

And, the police in Decatur do not routinely pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt.
 
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