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Once again the Internet stymies the cops....
Luckily for Flores and his girlfriend, Frasier recorded the entire incident on his tablet. But the police took his tablet and deleted the video. At least they thought they deleted it. When Frasier got home he discovered the video file reappeared once the tablet synced with the cloud server.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)The News station offered to show the video to the Police, and the Police declined. Then the official statement was that the Police wanted the guy who shot the video to come in and share the information with them. Guys, the video was available before this story went to air. The News station called, the reporter called you and said hey, want to see what we're going to air tonight and have a comment included? Nope, we don't want that. We want to have everything in private where it can't be seen by anyone.
I want to write something like, astonishing, astounding, or perhaps unbelievable. Unfortunately if I was to write something like that, I'd look like a fool, because astounding and the rest apply when something like this doesn't happen every single freaking day. Brutality, cover ups, intimidation, and abuse happen literally every single day. That's not astounding, astonishing, unbelievable or any other descriptor.
JI7
(89,172 posts)but before we were able to record things so easily.
Rex
(65,616 posts)St. Louis county PD set off a real shit storm. Arresting reporters and roughing them up. Not identifying themselves. Acting like overall thugs, no doubt that was a trial balloon for other LE to do what ever the fuck they want to. Nobody is stopping them, seems all cops want to do is cover the asses of their fellow cops or make excuses for obvious killing of innocent people.
It really is shoot first and then cover up later.