Stay classy, Atlanta. Stay classy.

Now I'm not saying anything unlawful occurred but no officer cam stinks like garbage.
No, it doesn't.

That narrative is being picked up and run with by people that have no idea how things work in Georgia.

The idiot shot a Georgia State Patrol Officer standing in a small group of Georgia State Patrol Officers. GSP aren't equipped with body cameras. Reason being, they never needed them.

Beat cops (Atlanta Police, DeKalb, Gwinnett, etc.) are supplied with body cameras for the most part because most of their time is spent outside and in many cases away from the patrol car. They enter people's houses, business, etc. where car cams can't go.

GSP are not equipped with body cameras because typically they spend the vast majority of their time in their cars either chasing down people on the interstate at high speeds or simply writing them tickets on the side of the road.

Their cars are well equipped with cameras front and rear that are easily capable of capturing those interactions. They've never needed anything more than that.

But when Brian Kemp brought them in (at pretty high expense, mind you) it was thought that GSP would simply help support local police. That group of GSP officers were there for that reason and that idiot decided to shoot one of them. That they weren't equipped with body cams is standard for GSP. There's no skullduggery of any type involved.
 
Interesting. I thought almost all cops had to wear cameras these days. I didn't realize there were exceptions. Hell even the tactical squads up here have cameras.
 
Hell even the tactical squads up here have cameras.
Again, they enter buildings, businesses, etc. GSP does not. They never have. They're never move more than 20 feet from the front or rear of their car in their typical line of duty.

You're comparing a soldier that fights on the battlefield to a general who mostly sits in an office. The two jobs are completely different.
 
APD released their video this morning. Just saw it on the news. It was not of the incident, but at the time of the incident.

There were 8 or 10 officers walking through the woods coming up to a green tent. They were yelling for whoever was inside to come out with their hands up and leave whatever weapons they had inside.

After getting no response they walk up to the tent and one officer uses a box cutter to quickly open it and they found nobody there.

As they're walking off they suddenly hear "pow pow pow pow pow pow pow pow" in rapid succession. They all turn to look in the direction of the shots and one officer says, "Is that target practice?" It was not a joke. He literally thought somebody might be taking some target practice at the time.

So they weren't aware of any situation at all and they were lead in that area.
 
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Son of a bitch.

He did it intentionally, alright. The whole "take off his clothes and act like a nut" thing was to get an insanity plea, I guarantee it. It would never work down here, but I bet it does up there.
 
Insanity only changes the type of institution you stay in before court. Only about 1% of charged Canadians try to use the insanity defense and of those only about 1/4 are successful.

Canadian legislators first incorporated the insanity defence in the Criminal Code in 1892, based mainly on the language used for the M’Naghten rule. However, anyone found unfit to stand trial or acquitted because of insanity was to be held in “strict custody at the pleasure of” the provincial lieutenant governor. This essentially resulted in a prolonged, if not lifetime, incarceration in a mental institution.

Depending on whether you are deemed an ongoing threat will determine how secure your facilities will be. Even those deemed not a threat are still under constant watch.
 
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