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I hike 13 miles a day for my profession. I encounter every kind of human known to existence. Interaction with people is a fact of reality, every minute of every day. I am thinking about wearing a body cam. My best girl says I could be you tube famous based on some of the stories I relate to her.

Bodycam footage from May 2023 of Jackson County deputies interviewing the teen who went on to allegedly attack Apalachee High School shows him denying he had made any threats and deputies taking him at his word. Breitbart News reported that the FBI was alerted to the suspect over a year before he allegedly opened fire in Apalachee High School. The FBI alerted Jackson County, and two Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies were sent to interview the then-13-year-old and his father. Bodycam footage of that interview shows the father repeatedly telling deputies that he understands the magnitude of the alleged school shooting...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has released over 40,000 hours of J6 footage including capitol police body cam footage to the public in the interests of transparency, an action which should have been taken years ago. Each new piece of footage only confirms what many Americans already understood – That the few scant minutes of available video recycled by the media paint a false picture of what really happened. Many would argue that J6 was nothing more than a protest that was turned into a riot by police incitement and establishment spin. Even worse, there are many people now languishing in...

A Florida woman who shot a mom of four dead through her locked front door was once branded a “psycho” by a responding deputy after repeatedly calling cops to complain about the victim’s noisy kids. Newly released body-cam footage shows the numerous instances that Susan Lorincz, 58, had called the police on 25-year-old Ajike Owen over local children playing near her rental apartment in Ocala Lorincz faces a manslaughter rap for fatally blasting Owens June after the spiraling feud over the noise. Critics have argued that the crime is deserving of a murder rap, asserting that Owens was unarmed. “When...

David DePape, the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, made a chilling jailhouse phone call to a news station, revealing disturbing plans to “get” people he believes were behind the suppression of individual liberties. DePape called KTVU on Friday, the same day that police body camera footage was released to the public showing DePape confronted by officers while wielding a hammer and, moments later, appearing to swing it at Pelosi’s head. At the top of the call, DePape said he had seen the newly released video and had an “important message for everyone in America.” “You’re welcome,”...

SAN FRANCISCO — The police body camera video showing the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband at their San Francisco home last October will be released to the media on Friday morning, according to court officials. A statement released by the San Francisco Superior Court said the video and audio in the case of the People vs. David DePape will be made "available to accredited media members" Friday morning at 9 a.m. in accordance with Judge Stephen M. Murphy's order Wednesday. Media representatives will be able to pick up the CD's containing the footage and audio recordings...

The Department of Justice claimed in their indictment of Paul Pelosi's alleged nudist attacker that "two officers opened the door" to his San Francisco home before witnessing him getting attacked but body cam footage reportedly shows Pelosi himself opened the door for police and stayed inside the home with his alleged assailant rather than run to safety.NBC Bay Area reported on Saturday that they "spoke with a source familiar with the Pelosi investigation" who "personally viewed body camera video recorded by officers responding to the Pelosi's San Francisco home" and it shows Pelosi "opened the door with his left hand.""The...

Police body camera video that captured the attack on Paul Pelosi, and the moments leading up to it, contradict one of the details included in the Department of Justice's account of what happened that evening, according to a source familiar with the Pelosi investigation who personally viewed the body camera footage and spoke to the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. In recent days, the Department of Justice and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office have outlined differing accounts of who opened the door when police responded to Pelosi's 911 call. Senior Investigative Reporter Bigad Shaban shares new details about what...

Newly released body camera footage reveals the sickening moment a deputy and a dirt bike rider were engulfed in flames after the officer fired a taser at a gas station. Deputy David Crawford was heard screaming in pain and begging his fellow officers to 'put out' the fire on his legs as he desperately rolled around. Meanwhile his victim, dirt bike rider Jean Barreto, 26, was 'cooked alive' in the fireball which left him with third-degree burns on approximately 75% of his body. Both remain in hospital after the February 27 incident at the Wawa gas station in Florida. But...

Police bodycam footage has been released of officers speaking to Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie in Utah after they responded to a 911 call of a domestic incident a month before she was reported missing. The Moab City Police Department on Thursday released the hour-long footage of their interaction with the couple when they pulled over their white van outside Arches National Park in Moab on Aug. 12. In the footage, obtained by ABC7, Petito sobbed as she spoke to an officer. “I have really bad OCD. I was apologizing to him saying I’m sorry I’m so mean,”...

Bodycam Captures Suspect Firing at Motorcycle Officer Before Getting Shot in Fremont, California

City officials have released videos and other material showing what happened the night police fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

Thursday afternoon, Minneapolis Police released body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of a man in south Minneapolis. The shooting happened at about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at a Holiday gas station near East 36th Street and Cedar Avenue. Police said officers were engaged in a traffic stop with a felony suspect when gunfire was exchanged and the suspect was struck. While police have not yet identified the man, who died at the scene, a person who said he's the victim's father identified the man as 23-year-old Dolal Bayle Idd. The body camera video shows officers that were part of a...

Officer Michael Sipos, 1 of the officers who responded to 2nd Ave N Christmas Day in the minutes prior to the explosion, had been issued a body camera just days earlier. Here is what he saw & heard: 13 min video

Police bodycam footage of the street and RV before the explosion. Explosion at 3:50 13 mins. Nashville Pre-Explosion Video

The family of Walter Wallace, a black man that was shot to death by police officers in Philadelphia on Monday, has spoken out about the incident. After viewing the bodycam footage, they are calling for justice for Wallace. Law enforcement is set to release the bodycam footage of the incident that took Wallace’s life shortly. “I would like to see justice done for what they did to my son,” said Kathy Brant, Wallace’s mother. Two police officers shot Wallace after been called to a West Philadelphia neighborhood. The 27-year-old approached the officers while brandishing a knife shortly before being gunned...

George Floyd Case Body Cam Footage: Video from two police body cameras has been made public in the George Floyd case. The footage is from the body-worn cameras of former Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. The footage shows the arrest of Floyd and the moments leading up to his death. **WARNING: The video contains graphic content and language. Viewer discretion is advised.** George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day 2020, after bystander video showed former officer Derek Chauvin's knee on his neck for over nine minutes as Floyd was heard saying "I can't...

The bodycam footage showing the full arrest of George Floyd has been published after being shown in a US court. The footage shows rookie cop Thomas Lane approaching Floyd in a car outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis in the US by tapping on the window with a gun. The following minutes include Floyd being handcuffed before being led to another police car where he appears to be beaten in the back seat by officers while pleading for his life. The bodycam footage, published by the Daily Mail, shows the minutes before Floyd was filmed by a bystander laying on the...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department has released the bodycam footage of officers responding to a fatal shooting in the so-called CHOP zone early Saturday and being swarmed by what they called “a violent crowd” that prevented police from reaching the scene, particularly since they are prohibited from using less lethal options.Officers responded around 2:30 a.m. to shots fired in Cal Anderson Park, which lies inside an area of several blocks that demonstrators in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood cordoned off and dubbed the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP zone.The shooting inside the protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and left another male with life-threatening...

Body camera footage from Officer Garrett Rolfe and Officer Devin Brosan were released by the Atlanta Police Department on Saturday. The footage clearly shows Atlanta police officers behaving respectfully and doing everything they were supposed to do. According to reports Rayshard Brooks fell asleep in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday night.When the police arrived Rayshard failed a breathalyzer test. Then when police attempted to arrest Brooks he became violent. Brooks was caught on camera wrestling with police and resisting arrest. He was shot dead after he took the officer’s taser gun and fled down the street and fired the...