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bee_rider on Oct 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was I...

Judges should start instructing juries make an adverse inference against the police, if bodycam footage is missing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference

hutzlibu on Oct 4, 2022 [–]

Yes and they likely will - but only in jurisdictions, where bodycams are mandatory to be always on.

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