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WOW!!! BBC journalists covering Virginia shooting 'threatened by police,' forced to delete footage
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First off, the reporter himself says the footage was poor footage anyhow. He didn't record anything worthwhile.
Secondly, the evidence comment the reporter is so puzzled about isn't all that puzzling. The cop isn't saying he wants evidence destroyed. He's saying that that footage may contain evidence they are gathering and that they don't want it entering the public realm until the case is processed and what not.
That's pretty common practice. Now whether he had a legal right to actually make the guy delete the footage, well, it appears he did not have that right. He overstepped his boundaries there.
Which is another thing cops tend to do on an all too regular basis.
Quoting: TakingCues The "evidence" deletion is explained above. It's actually not explained. Just because it's 'common practice,' doesn't make it legit. Especially in such a high profile event. Come on. They weren't destroying actual evidence. They were destroying footage the guy had of them on the scene gathering evidence. Now if the guy happened to be on the scene and filmed the car crashing or something like that, then you would have something here. All that occurred though was the cop making him destroy footage that if it went public could have revealed info to the public prior to the case being processed and what not. It's not as of the footage captured anything the cops didn't gather as evidence already or were in the process of doing. And yes, the cop apparently didn't have the right to make the reporter delete the footage. Like I said, he overstepped his bounds by doing that. But again, cops behaving like that in general isn't all that uncommon. Many of them tend to abide their position of power or actually believe they are allowed to do certain things that aren't actually legal. Part of the reason they behave that way though is because they rarely get in trouble for it anyhow.
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