Making police body camera footage accessible to the public will bolster transparency and could help foster goodwill toward law enforcement in the communities they serve.
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Sun, 05/09/2021 - 09:04
EXPAND VOTING OPPORTUNITIES, DON T LIMIT THEM: Current state law requires any mail-in ballots to be postmarked on Election Day AND be received by the local board of elections within three days – unless they are sent from those in the military service or overseas. Now, the folks who run the legislature noticed that 45% of the nearly 1.1 million North Carolinians who voted by mail were Democrats compared to a mere 21% being Republicans. Now they want to command that ALL mail-in ballots must be received ON election day. The impact would be significant. They really think they’d be curtailing Democratic votes. But the reality is that there’s no telling which voters cast ballots when. There is no reason to set this date other than to deny some voters a chance to cast ballots. Votes aren’t officially counted for several days after Election Day – with the official canvass. The REAL votes for president aren’t cast until the Ele
Rev. Al Sharpton echoed the growing call for justice and new policy in the fatal shooting of the 42-year-old father, whose family continues to demand the release of the body cam footage.
“This must stop, enough is enough” said Sharpton, standing in front of a large photo of Brown at Fountain of Life Church.
“How many funerals do we have to have before we tell the Congress and the Senate that you’ve got to do something in these times? We have the
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, this must happen in these times, just like the Civil Rights Act of ‘64 was on time, the Voting RIghts Act of 65 was on time, the times call for a policing act.”
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten, who oversees the deputies who killed Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, told
All Things Considered that he thinks releasing the video now will help people trust law enforcement More than what the video shows is that we re going to put it out, Wooten said on Friday. And at the end of the day, if any of the deputies made a mistake, or if they broke any law or violated any of our policies, they will be held accountable.
In his order, Foster said the release of the footage now could compromise the investigation, but Wooten has gotten different guidance at the state level.