IMHO the whole bodycam/dashcam is a red herring.
Per regulations body cams aren’t turned on until they exit the vehicle. They were still inside. If they had been on, they would have just been taping the dashboard.
And every police car I’ve seen, the dashcam doesn’t go on until the key is turned. Just like in my vehicles. And all they would have gotten anyway was audio.
BANG! BANG!
If they had turned off the engine, the dashcam goes off. At least that’s the way it is in my friend’s cruiser.
There’s a lot hinky about this case, but I don’t think it’s the cameras.
No
BANG!BANG!BANG!
at least 3 shots were fired...
My dash cam records for 5 minutes after the ignition is off, it also permanently records the 10 sec before and after an accelerometer event.
Of course, it's just a cheap civilian model, not an expensive police model designed to help discern the truth in interactions between armed "No Hesitation" trained police and unarmed, untrained civilians...
The following statement allows some wiggle room:
“There’s still a lot about the lead-up to the shooting that’s unknown, said Jenny Singleton of the Police Conduct Oversight Commission. But it appears to her that the cameras should have been turned on.”