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Officer Body Cameras ‘Go Dark’ as Innocent Family Beaten, But the Dashcam Caught It All

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DeSoto, TX — The incremental use of police officer body cameras over the last decade has proven to be both a huge asset to police accountability as well as a source of constant controversy. Many times, police departments will simply refuse to release potentially incriminating video, while other times, officers turn them off before committing a crime. As the following case illustrates, despite being required to film all their interactions, many cops will do the exact opposite when they are about to inflict violence on compliant individuals. Now, because these abusive officers got away Scot free, the taxpayers will be held to the fire.

A lawsuit filed this week in federal court seeks to undo the inaction of police holding themselves accountable by suing the DeSoto Police Department for brutality and an alleged cover up.

“From our perspective, we have a family that called police, asked for help and was brutalized as a result, and the story is as simple as that,” said David Henderson from Ellwanger Law LLLP, which is representing the family.

Last August, Sammie Anderson made the mistake of contacting the police to help break up an argument between her two sons. By the time police arrived, however, the argument was over. But this did not prevent the responding officers from escalating the situation.

“I wanted them to come out and be the mediator. The boys never fought, but I wanted them to come out and be there to make sure that they could help diffuse the argument,” explained Anderson. “But by the time police got there, there was no argument, it was totally quiet.”

When police responded, officers tackled Mrs. Anderson and then tasered one of her sons. The son who was tasered appeared to be entirely compliant with the orders given to him to lie on the ground. He was not a threat.

As the video shows, when police arrived, the scene was quiet and there was no disturbance. However, when officers Patrick Krekel, Bryan Scott-Lee, Courie Bryant, Kendall McGill, Ryan Money and Larry Walker arrived, the scene quickly descended into chaos.

We were not given the opportunity to even tell them what was going on,” claims Anderson. “The first thing they did was draw their weapons.”

When the officers got out of their cars, they held the family at gunpoint and demanded to know if they were fighting.

“No one’s fighting,’’ said Anderson’s third son, Sam, who walked up after just arriving from work.

Officers then yelled for everyone to get on the ground, to which Matt and his mother immediately complied. Sam is seen walking closer and that’s when Anderson gets up to warn her son to get down.

“Do as you’re told or you’re going to get Tased!’’ officer Scott-Lee said.

As Anderson began to get up once more, officer Krekel tackled the mother of three from behind and she was slammed into the street.

Just as Krekel is about to taser Anderson’s son, his camera conveniently shuts off.

Around the same time, Scott-Lee’s body camera points away from the violence and somehow stayed focused for three minutes on the house next door.

“Once you get here, we need to start hooking people up,’’ Scott-Lee said. “The males first. They’re all trying to fight each other.’’

A woman’s voice objected, saying, “No they were not, sir.’’

“Be quiet,’’ Scott-Lee said.

Although we cannot see the tasering take place on the body camera, dash camera captured the entire scene. We can also hear Grant scream for nearly a minute as he is repeatedly tasered for no reason.

“How do y’all Tase somebody f*cking 12 times, bro?’’ Grant can be heard asking on the footage.

Krekel said, “You got Tased twice.’’

“That was more than twice. What do you mean?’’

Krekel said, “Five-second bursts. Twice.’’

As the video below shows, Grant was in pain for far longer than two five-second bursts.

Officer Patrick Krekel also recorded himself talking about how he had “slammed’’ the mother of three to the street.

In total, three of the officers’ body cameras went dark during the incident. A subsequent investigation into the officers’ alleged misconduct found that their use of force was justified—despite the clearly missing evidence.

“It’s just unfair because it compromises our efforts to get at the truth,’’ Anderson said of the missing footage.

“Out of the six officers on the scene that night, only five had on body cameras,” claims Henderson. “Only one body camera remained turned on during the entirety of the events and not one single camera recorded everything that happened, including Grant Bible being tased.”

What’s more, both of Anderson’s sons, Grant, 20, and Sam Bible, 23, were arrested that night for allegedly interfering with officers. They were thrown in jail and lost their jobs as a result. Because they had no evidence to charge the two men with a crime, they were cleared and released—but the damage had already been done.

Below is a video showing how body camera footage can be both beneficial to telling the truth as well as manipulated for lies.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
 

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