LVMPD Body Cam Footage in Michael Bennett Incident Released

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Noryb said:
I also find it convenient that the detaining officer forgot to turn his body cam on.
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These body cams should not be able to be turn off and on any time the police want. But I thought I read the detaining officer had his body cam off during the pursuit but later had it on when detaining Bennett.
 
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Thing is, in Vegas, there are more cameras than casinos. Of all places to try to cover up a bad detention, this one might be the worst. Body camera or not, I doubt two feet of the pursuit and detention missed a camera lens. This wasn't a highway arrest.

Think there are bad pursuits, detentions and arrests. But it would take a Gumby-like stretch to imagine this is one.
 
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JoeKing said:
These body cams should not be able to be turn off and on any time the police want. But I thought I read the detaining officer had his body cam off during the pursuit but later had it on when detaining Bennett.
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I believe you're right and other footage filled in that gap but agree, there is NO reason cameras shouldn't always be on
 
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Walker said:
Michael Bennett is a freaking idiot, and would not listen then plays the race card. Now that the footage is out, now it shows he was nothing but a liar. Protest that.
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Well SOMETHING made his brother Martellus cry...maybe he forgot he was cutting onions while seeing the "heinous footage" of his brother being arrested.

Pretty sure Michael would've more upset if the police would've not done anything and let the active shooter tag him.

Actually sounding a lot like the accuser playing the r card is actually the guilty.
 
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Noryb said:
Well according to the article there was no video of his detention.
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there is double speak in the article. It mentions him being detained and references where in the video but then at the end says there was no video of the detention.
 
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Rockport said:
I couldn't tell from the video what the heck happened.
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It was easy to see.

Everybody went to the ground except for Bennett who was crouched down and ran out of the building.

Bennett didn't do anything illegal. But, if you take a look at the video and you ask 'what person out of this group is behaving in a suspicious manner consistent with being a shooter?' you would point out Bennett.

And that's why the police detained him. They didn't even arrest him. They didn't rough him up. They did yell at him and say they would blow his head off. And they apologized for detaining him after the entire incident was over. All the while Bennett claimed he wasn't running when the video shows that he was.

I'm not detesting Bennett for running nor do I think he did anything remotely wrong. But neither did the police and Bennett had to make false claims about him being detained.





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Noryb said:
I'm confused!
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Bennett claimed that he was 'running like everybody else.'

Nobody else was running. The video clearly shows that.

It's not against the law, but in a situation where there's an unknown assailant firing a gun Bennett's behavior was so different from everybody's else that it made him suspicious.

But, that's not even the point. The other stuff that Bennett claimed was simply untrue. He was detained in accordance to the laws the only time he was sworn at was when the police were questioning him and he would was not answering their simple questions and he wouldn't get his feet into the car. And there were numerous black people in the building that the police never even detained because their behavior was in line with everybody else.

He lied about the incident to play the victim role and to further his political rhetoric and for whatever reasons. Lots of people here took up for him. Roger Goodell went out of his way to take up for him. And now they are proven to have made a mistake and they jumped to conclusions and took his word over law enforcement.




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Yakuza Rich said:
It was easy to see.

Everybody went to the ground except for Bennett who was crouched down and ran out of the building.

Bennett didn't do anything illegal. But, if you take a look at the video and you ask 'what person out of this group is behaving in a suspicious manner consistent with being a shooter?' you would point out Bennett.

And that's why the police detained him. They didn't even arrest him. They didn't rough him up. They did yell at him and say they would blow his head off. And they apologized for detaining him after the entire incident was over. All the while Bennett claimed he wasn't running when the video shows that he was.

I'm not detesting Bennett for running nor do I think he did anything remotely wrong. But neither did the police and Bennett had to make false claims about him being detained.





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well said.

When/if after this is seen though, and I think it needs to be, and accomplishing what is right is achieved, that is best.

I wouldn't fret either way who is determined to be the instigator......if it were the police, Bennett or if someone else of a different color was involved and found in the wrong, as long if justice was met.

Bennett did write that scathing letter, a week later after cooler minds should've prevailed, capturing his interpretation of events that I honestly didn't see.
 
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