Never tell police you are recording them
Almost all police vehicles have cameras....so they already consent to be recorded
Also, if so close to hospital, their cameras should also be recording
This should be a felony. In fact, if any aspect of the man’s death is a crime, then deleting the footage is evidence tampering which is also a crime. Officers who blatantly cover up their own criminal actions deserve to be charged under title 18, sec. 241 and 242 official oppression, and deprivation of rights under color of authority.
And I'm sure someone will say "there's an app for that!"
If asked, just tell them the memory card is on it’s way to 9News.
It comes down to he said, she said. There have always been people in rough neighborhoods willing to attest to non-existent police brutality. Cell phones with video recording capability simply provide the basis of an authoritative-sounding narrative. She may have recorded a video, or she may be lying. However, the bottom line is that without a video, Internal Affairs has bupkis.
One solution to this is to demand a law which, similar to refusing a breathalyzer, gets you the same penalty as if you took the test and failed.
If a cop, destroys evidence then he should be immediately convicted of the accused crime.
If presumed guilty is good for us only seems fair to use the same logic on them. Destroy evidence you are guilty.
We must hold people who are given power over us to at bare minimum the same standards/punishments we face. In reality, as they are given power, and if they abuse it, the jail time should be quadrupled.
“delete” on digital devices doesn’t always mean “erase”. Sometimes it merely frees up the storage location but the data itself can easily be recovered.
Destruction of evidence of manslaughter would not look good at trial for the perps.