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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recently signed House Bill 315 into law, allowing law enforcement agencies to charge the public up to $75 per hour and up to $750 total for retrieving, redacting, and producing police video records, including body and dash cam footage. Legislators added these provisions to the omnibus bill at the last minute,…
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From Axios Columbus Technology used by the Columbus Division of Police and other police departments nationwide to detect gunshots faces accusations that it confuses gunshots with other noises, like slamming doors, Axios’ Russell Contreras reports.
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Insight: The argument on display in the two reports, which are based in part on video footage of Loehmann and his partner driving up to Rice and, within seconds, shooting him at close range, ought to alarm anyone who believes that police officers should not be allowed to kill whomever they want, whenever they want, as long as they’re under the impression that a suspect is armed. If Loehmann’s use of lethal force against Rice is considered “reasonable,” it’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which an officer’s decision to approach an ostensibly armed suspect and shoot him would ever be deemed unreasonable.