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Police Are Deleting Smartphone Videos At Crime Scenes Even Though It’s Illegal
In the early hours of April 13, 2015, in a residential neighborhood in south Los Angeles, police arrived outside the home of Alex Jimenez, a 35-year-old man who was experiencing severe "emotional issues," according to Luis Carillo, an attorney now representing Jimenez's family. By the end of the night, he was dead.
*Summary: Guy Died
What happened that evening is still shrouded in mystery, but according to a lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department in late April, one of the responding officers placed Jimenez in handcuffs, pushed him to the ground, Tasered him and held him down with a knee to the neck. Witnesses said Jimenez was screaming in Spanish, begging officers not to take him away. Then, according to the lawsuit, he began "to vomit, turn blue, and ultimately die."
*Summary: Witness saw police kill aforementioned dead guy
The coroner concluded the ultimate cause of death was drugs in Jimenez's system, not the restraint or the Taser shock. But what happened next is casting the official narrative in doubt: A witness recorded the incident on a cell phone. But the LAPD took him down to a police station, where officers took his phone and deleted the video permanently.
*Summary: Kill and destroy all witnesses
The LAPD has not publicly released any internal report or investigation into what happened on the evening of April 13, 2015, and they have not responded to claims that video was deleted or destroyed. Carillo expects the case to go to trial, and a key point will be whether or not the LAPD officers, who are unnamed in the suit, intentionally destroyed the video evidence of what took place that evening.
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To be sure, it's no great secret that more and more people around the country are recording police arrests and interactions with their phones. Just enter the term “police brutality” into YouTube and see for yourself. Page after page documents police officers Tasering, tackling and body-slamming people who don’t seem to be presenting much physical threat at all. As one recent Mother Jones magazine headline exclaimed, “Another Day, Another Sickening New Video of Police Brutality.”
Hey Pops! Phones have cameras on them nowadays!
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And if that's what indeed happened, this sort of evidence tampering is hardly an isolated incident, according to Hamid Khan, a Los Angeles activist who works closely with families of victims of police brutality. Khan says he’s begun hearing more stories of police deleting more cell phone footage of interactions with officers.
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In the early hours of April 13, 2015, in a residential neighborhood in south Los Angeles, police arrived outside the home of Alex Jimenez, a 35-year-old man who was experiencing severe "emotional issues," according to Luis Carillo, an attorney now representing Jimenez's family. By the end of the night, he was dead.
*Summary: Guy Died
What happened that evening is still shrouded in mystery, but according to a lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department in late April, one of the responding officers placed Jimenez in handcuffs, pushed him to the ground, Tasered him and held him down with a knee to the neck. Witnesses said Jimenez was screaming in Spanish, begging officers not to take him away. Then, according to the lawsuit, he began "to vomit, turn blue, and ultimately die."
*Summary: Witness saw police kill aforementioned dead guy
The coroner concluded the ultimate cause of death was drugs in Jimenez's system, not the restraint or the Taser shock. But what happened next is casting the official narrative in doubt: A witness recorded the incident on a cell phone. But the LAPD took him down to a police station, where officers took his phone and deleted the video permanently.
*Summary: Kill and destroy all witnesses
The LAPD has not publicly released any internal report or investigation into what happened on the evening of April 13, 2015, and they have not responded to claims that video was deleted or destroyed. Carillo expects the case to go to trial, and a key point will be whether or not the LAPD officers, who are unnamed in the suit, intentionally destroyed the video evidence of what took place that evening.
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To be sure, it's no great secret that more and more people around the country are recording police arrests and interactions with their phones. Just enter the term “police brutality” into YouTube and see for yourself. Page after page documents police officers Tasering, tackling and body-slamming people who don’t seem to be presenting much physical threat at all. As one recent Mother Jones magazine headline exclaimed, “Another Day, Another Sickening New Video of Police Brutality.”
Hey Pops! Phones have cameras on them nowadays!
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And if that's what indeed happened, this sort of evidence tampering is hardly an isolated incident, according to Hamid Khan, a Los Angeles activist who works closely with families of victims of police brutality. Khan says he’s begun hearing more stories of police deleting more cell phone footage of interactions with officers.
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