Cops use taser on woman while she recorded arrest of another man
Source: Ars Technica
A 36-year-old Baltimore woman claims she was tased by police and arrested while filming the arrest of a man with her mobile phone, according to a lawsuit to be served on the Baltimore City Police Department as early as Thursday.
Video of the March 30 melee surfaced online this week. Police erased the 135-second recording from the woman's phone, but it was recovered from her cloud account, according to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City lawsuit (PDF), which seeks $7 million.
Kianga Mwamba was driving home from a family gathering in March. Stopped in traffic, she began filming the nearby arrest of a man who she says was kicked by police...
...While in custody, she gave her phone to an officer to show the video that she didn't try to run over anybody. The video was allegedly erased from the phone in what her attorney, Joshua Insley, described in a telephone interview as a "coverup."
The police department said in a statement that the language the officer used was "both offensive and unacceptable."
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/cops-use-taser-on-woman-while-she-recorded-arrest-of-another-man/
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ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Sparhawk60
(359 posts)I love cell Phone Cameras, cops can lie all they want, then some one steps up with a video, and the cops get caught lying....again.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)they tell her to move the car and she says she can't pull over because there is an officer in the way. I'm thinking the cops will say this was about what she did with the vehicle not what she did with the camera phone.
They say she stopped in the middle of the street and stayed stopped after the light turned green then hit an Officer in the legs with her car.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-video-arrest-20141209-story.html
crim son
(27,462 posts)It might have served to back up the officer's story, or at least put the situation in context.
NickB79
(19,114 posts)Gee, I wonder if the cops made any assumptions about her based on her ethnicity?