“Why don’t we have footage from body cameras?” Betsy Hodges, the mayor of Minneapolis, said at a news conference Tuesday evening, visibly frustrated. “Part of what’s happening in policing around body camera video policy is, there’s no national coherence,” Mr. Bueermann said. PhotoLast week, days before Ms. Damond’s shooting, a Minneapolis television station, using a snapshot of data from March, reported that body camera usage in the Minneapolis Police Department appeared to be minimal. In Ms. Damond’s case, the lack of body camera footage is concerning, said Teresa Nelson, the interim executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. Body camera footage would help.”The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency, is investigating the shooting.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2017 13:52 UTC