Posted on 03/18/2015 5:58:56 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A veteran Las Vegas police officer has been suspended and accused of misdemeanor battery after a body camera he was wearing provided evidence that he injured a woman he arrested for littering and loitering for the purpose of prostitution, authorities said Tuesday.
An expert said it might be one of the first cases in which a body camera has led to criminal charges against a police officer.
Officer Richard Scavone, 43, used "not only excessive, but also unreasonable" force in the 5 a.m. Jan. 6 scuffle in a neon-lit industrial area one block west Las Vegas Strip resorts, Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters outside Las Vegas police headquarters.
"We're not going to shy away from bringing these incidents to light when a body camera captures actions of one of our officers that do not appear to be within the confines of law and policy," McMahill said.
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Way to go , Laz.
Oh...so the battery was in a case, waiting to be charged by the policeman wearing a body camera?
Ouch. Sorry you feel that way. Just going on personal experience. Your comments have an extra sting because they came specifically from you. Perhaps I should reevaluate my thinking, or Maybe I should just take my ball and go home.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to blast you quite so hard. It’s just that it also hurts me to see Freepers and conservatives embrace the nascent police state. Allow me to offer my apology for ‘Unnecessary Roughness’, but would you consider the possibility that the police state is nothing to embrace?
“would you consider the possibility that the police state is nothing to embrace?”
Absolutely. Thank you for giving me something to think about. And, not to worry. I’m big boy, I can take it. Cheers.
Glad we came to accord. Again, apologies.
So then you oppose the Fourth Amendment? Pretty much the whole point of the Fourth Amendment is that the whole “if you’re not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it” argument is bogus.
Sorry, I think I misread your comment. Upon another reading, it seems that you are agreeing with me here.
I was.
No! Monitoring government agents at work is not the same as monitoring citizens. Police body cams are to monitor government agents, whereas government-ordered pee tests and surveillance are examples of government monitoring citizens.
See the difference?
I can see some good things about the body cameras, but I’ve got other issues that I don’t often see discussed. We talk about the rights of the cops, but what about the rights of the citizens they capture on video?
For most regular people any time when police are called in also means that it’s probably among the very worst days of their lives. Whatever is happening, chances are good that a whole lot of things have gone really wrong. Are these the moments of our lives that we would want captured and posted on YouTube? All of those videos will automatically become public record. We’re dreaming if we think they won’t or can’t be published.
Whether I’m in the right or in the wrong and whether or not I’m proud of my own performance or not... Whatever happened is just nobody else’s business. I’m not sure I want the Internet Community to provide commentary on the horrible moments in the lives of friends and family.
Just .02
Citizens are already monitored 10 ways to Sunday by the government, and your concern is that in the process of monitoring the police, some citizens may be captured in a bad light? C’mon!
So they're more concerned with protecting bad cops than good cops.
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