And this is why all cops should be wearing body cams

[BoyNextDoor]

See the crazy man shouting "kill me" and the cop showing restraint

Tense body cam footage from an Ohio police officer who shot a man threatening him with a knife on a highway has been released by the local police department.
Glendale police released the video recorded on a body camera worn by officer Joshua Hilling as he confronted a man walking along the side of Interstate 75.

After initially questioning the man about where he has come from and where he plans on going, the officer asks him to put his bag down and keep his hands out of his pockets.

Hilling then asks the man, identified as Javier Pablo Aleman, 46, to put his hands on the police cruiser so he can be searched, when Aleman suddenly pulls out a knife and charges at the cop.

 

[nerfhearder]

I remember when cops could shoot you for looking at them crosseyed and nobody said a word. Now you need a "weapon" and be a "danger."

 

[RoryN]

I remember when cops could shoot you for looking at them crosseyed and nobody said a word.

No problem. Those kids born with crossed eyes deserved to die.

Per cops & cameras: cops can turn their cameras off. I just heard a story at work where one turned his off during a pull over with another cop. And, sure enough, he turned it off so he could wail on the suspect without incriminating himself.

Turns out he had a good reason to hit the suspect, but his dept. told him not to ever switch the camera off again. Sound advice.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I thought the point would be to make them with no off-switch.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I thought the point would be to make them with no off-switch.

I thought that too. The problem is that citizens have a right to not be recorded. If the citizen indicates they don't want to be recorded, the cops have to turn it off.

 

[Lancecastor]

I thought that too. The problem is that citizens have a right to not be recorded. If the citizen indicates they don't want to be recorded, the cops have to turn it off.

I don't see that as a problem.