Video shows Brandon Tate-Brown running away when shot by Police

[n2doc]

BRANDON TATE-BROWN was running - not reaching into his car for a gun - when he was fatally shot by a Philadelphia police officer in December, a lawyer representing Tate-Brown's family told the Daily News last night.

Attorney Brian Mildenberg said he and Tanya Brown-Dickerson on Thursday viewed surveillance footage of Tate-Brown's encounter with two patrol cops during a traffic stop on Frankford Avenue near Magee in Mayfair on Dec. 15.

The footage, recorded by four different cameras at nearby businesses, is imperfect - grainy images that are sometimes obstructed or washed out by the police cruiser's flashing domelights.

But what's clear, Mildenberg said, is that Tate-Brown's shooting didn't mirror police accounts of the incident.

The Police Department has repeatedly said Tate-Brown had knocked one officer to the ground after a violent struggle, and was fatally wounded by the other officer as he reached into the front passenger side of his 2014 Dodge Charger for a stolen, loaded handgun that was near the center console.


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150222_Lawyer__Video_of_police_shooting_differs_from_official_account.html#OTALxFj7To3CzQEJ.99

[marym625]

1. Just like the first stories from the cops about Tamir Rice.

They didn't know there were cameras around so they just lied.

[rhett o rick]

2. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[BrotherIvan]

5. Why isn't that illegal in and of itself?

If I lied to the police I can be charged with filing a false report. Why on earth aren't police doubly responsible??

[marym625]

7. got me.

It should be. I don't understand why that murdering POS is still on the force and hasn't been charged. It's despicable

[MerryBlooms]

3. rec & kick

[libdem4life]

4. I remember the first time a police action/lie was caught by a cell video...and the

vehemence with which it was attacked. They tried to make it illegal. Now, it's becoming commonplace as there are cell phones, surveillance cameras everywhere. Many police forces now use dash cams and body cams. This part of Big Brother seems to be working in our favor.

Now all they are left with is "Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?"

[Fumesucker]

6. There's a term for it..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

Sousveillance (/suːˈveɪləns/ soo-VAY-ləns) is the recording of an activity by a participant in the activity typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies.[12] The term "sousveillance", coined by Steve Mann,[13] stems from the contrasting French words sur, meaning "above", and sous, meaning "below", i.e. "surveillance" denotes the "eye-in-the-sky" watching from above, whereas "sousveillance" denotes bringing the camera or other means of observation down to human level, either physically (mounting cameras on people rather than on buildings), or hierarchically (ordinary people doing the watching, rather than higher authorities or architectures doing the watching)

[libdem4life]

8. Never heard of it...my education is expanding. Thanks.

[nashville_brook]

9. wow, thanks for that.