After a police killing, officials in Memphis rushed to release unredacted video in an effort to show transparency. Some ask if L.A. should do the same.
last month were striking not just for the viciousness they captured.
California law requires police departments to release footage of most officer shootings and other serious uses of force within 45 days. There are no rules on what a department can and can’t show of an incident. Until 2018, the LAPD had long resisted releasing images or video of critical incidents, even after it embarked on an ambitious effort to outfit thousands of its officers with body cameras. Department officials often cited a desire to protect victims’ privacy and the integrity of investigations for their decision to not release video. Then-Police Chief Charlie Beck expressed concerns about the public viewing video out of context and jumping to conclusions about what it shows.
The videos are based on preliminary information and are not intended to be “exhaustive,” but rather are meant to give viewers a clearer picture of the moment force was used, without having to sift through extraneous video of officers driving to the scene or standing around after an incident occurs, Muniz said.
Most of the dozens of videos analyzed by The Times are edited in a way that shows at least some of the events leading up to officers using force. But some, like the footage from a June 8 police shooting in Hollywood, pick up just seven seconds before police fire the first shot at a man running away from them following a suspected burglary.by not reflecting what police said occurred.
Shakeer Rahman, an attorney who has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sulaiman and another reporter seeking unredacted footage of a 2020 police shooting, argued in court papers that the department’s truncated videos don’t satisfy Assembly Bill 748, the state law that requires video and audio from police body cameras and other law-enforcement recordings to be released within 45 days of an incident.
“The reason why we edit those is obviously there are some graphic scenes that we don’t want the public to see,” Gradillas added.
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