The family of Ronald green has been calling on the state police to release body camera video for more than a year. In october of 20 20, we get audio. It's not the video, but what one of the troopers was saying, n every living fuck out of him,. The son on bitch was still fighting. And then all of a sudden he just went limpe. We set him up, rel que, he's only aimless, and rout up. Say, yo, fofo, you better not. Mo, what the video ultimately shows is not a high speed crash into a tree. It's green out of the car, alert and responsive and pleading with the
Body cameras were supposed to bring greater transparency to law enforcement. The case of Ronald Greene suggests police departments are still learning how to use, and even abuse, a new tool.
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