Alabama police admit officer's body camera was turned off before shooting man holding spoon

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1415297/-Alabama-police-admit-officer-turned-off-body-camera-before-shooting-man-holding-spoon#

Mentally ill women and men account for as many 50 percent of the people killed by American police. Occasionally threatening and in desperate need of medical attention, instead of receiving an ambulance, they receive an officer with bullets instead of a doctor with medicine. Police are terrible doctors. This is pretty much why hospitals aren't full of people being shot to death.

In the long list of those who needed medical intervention, but met their death by police, we now add Jeffory Tevis. Having a full-fledged mental breakdown, Tevis, a 50-year-old white man with a history of mental illness, began cutting himself, but called police to state that he had been assaulted. After struggling with Tevis and using a Taser on him, the officer retreated 25 feet away from the man.

Tevis, with a serving spoon from his kitchen, began moving toward the officer, when he was fatally shot twice. The police have now admitted four damning details about the case....

This is a highly disturbing fact and calls into question every choice the officer made that day. Police should not even be allowed to turn their cameras off and on and doing so, particularly during a confrontation, should result in an immediate termination. Other departments have cameras that automatically turn on when police draw their weapons from their holsters. What we are seeing is that clear and public regulations on how body cameras are used are desperately needed.

Remember, folks, guns don't kill people, spoons kill people.

[uponit7771]

1. ...and the benefit of the doubt should be taken away from the cop for having his cam turned off and

... the person was 24 feet away...

and...

this is disgusting, cops are taught to shoot first.

I would not be surprised if the person shot was black \ brown

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Turning that camera off says 'premeditation' to me.

Murder 1.

[hobbit709]

3. Turning off the body cam should be firing offense for starters.

[AngryAmish]

4. Well, in certain hands, a fork can be really dangerous.

Ok, that Abdullah the Butcher pic was too gory.

This one better?

[Ino]

5. Or maybe they're just SAYING it was turned off...

then they won't have to produce the definitive damning evidence from it.

I don't put anything past them.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. kick