Brickbat: There for the Taking

Smith County, Texas, Precinct 1 Constable Curtis Harris, Chief Deputy LaQuenda Banks, and Sgt. Derrick Holman have been charged with theft of property between $750 and $2,500, abuse of official capacity, and official oppression. Prosecutors said the three were caught on bodycam video taking cash, ammunition, sunglasses and other items from a property while serving an eviction notice. They were caught because Banks accidentally turned her bodycam on when she thought she was turning it off.
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"They were caught because Banks accidentally turned her bodycam on when she thought she was turning it off."
Amateurs...they need to seize larger chunks of cash, invoke civil forfeiture, and make sure to share the proceeds with the entire department. Then it's good policing, not official oppression.
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See, this is why women shouldn't be cops.
With the camera facing everyone except LaQuenda, how are we supposed to know the most important detail?
OK, made me laugh. Good one.
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You can't tell if it identifies as male or female just by looking, nor with a DNA test.
Oh, did you mean its race? With a name like "LaQuenda Jackson", it's not white.
Obviously if she was intending to turn the camera off, her intent was for the camera to be off. That makes the evidence produced by the camera inadmissible and therefore they have no case against these people. She'll sue and get reinstated with back pay I'm sure.
Chief Deputy strikes again.
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The mayor or Tyler (the county seat) is an oil and gas man, and won his seat in in a blowout with 70% of the vote in 2020, after a Democrat ran the city for 8 years. Looks like the fish rotted from the head, voters weren’t happy, and a cleanup is progress.
This brings to mind a comment from an old retired Admiral, who told me if criminals spent as much time and effort working as they do stealing, they’d be far better off. I couldn’t agree more. How sad to see our government employees engaged in criminality. IMHO, it's a result of the laziness of Americans to keep their liberty from greedy politicians and their supporters. Unlike most people, I say if you don't know the issues and understand the proper role of government, or you work for the government (you have a conflict of interest), then stay home and don't vote.
Looks like a harbinger of the 2022 elections, nationwide.
Why do bodycams have an off switch? If something should not be publicized, fine, that's a question for higher officers or legal folks, but the data should all be gathered, or else why have the stupid things (except to catch stupid cops).
Because bathrooms
Why do bodycams have an off switch?
Because unicorn farts are in short supply. You do realize that, as Sgt., there are large portions of the country where Ofc. Holman is the highest-ranking officer for miles and sole arbiter of what does and does not get aired to the public, right?
I’m not sure of the exact cost to purchase, maintain, and operate 24/7 body cameras for a/the whole department, but if you’ve got enough $2500 thefts by officers going on to justify it, the problem is much bigger than what the camera can capture.
Or maybe something outside the control of the officer like it stops recording in the squad car (which has a dash cam and starts recording as soon as they get out of the squad car.
Automatically turn body cameras on when any weapon comes out of a holster?
How difficult could that be to invent?
Oh wait, bathrooms.
Because juries have not (yet) learned that if there's no video, the cop is lying.
Will claim qualified immunity, since no court case has ever ruled on 3 officers with one body-cam turned on and two body-cams turned off taking stuff from people they are evicting.
"dudes we were totes gonna sell the stuff to help the family pay rent"
They’ll get harsher penalties because they were armed, right?
This is terrible news. Now they'll perhaps be reprimanded... Then, once other police murders and robberies shift attention away, they'll be reinstated with back pay, raises, and unqualified immunity and again loosed on the public until brought to justice by ambushers. Sure is a sad way to operate a government...
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