body cameras

Police have said there is no footage showing the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. But Sam Aguiar, an attorney for Taylor’s family, filed a suit believing there is video footage that has not been seen. CK Hoffler, president of National Bar Association, discusses the suit.

Some sheriff’s department deputies will be wearing body-worn cameras in the field starting Thursday evening, according to Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received its first shipment of body-worn cameras Wednesday, one day after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to transfer $25.5 million to the sheriff’s department to fund the rollout of body-worn cameras to patrol deputies over the next year. The department says the cameras will be deployed next month and in...

The department is expected to roll out the cameras over the next year. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Sept. 1, 2020.

A 38-year-old man killed in a confrontation with LAPD officers in South Los Angeles in April was struck at least six times by police bullets and had detectable amounts of methamphetamine in his blood, according to a report from the LA County Coroner’s office. Daniel Hernandez was shot in the top of the head, and in the shoulder, abdomen,...

The teenage daughter of a 38-year-old man killed by an LAPD officer in South Los Angeles has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, claiming the shooting was unjustified and the officer who pulled the trigger had, “reckless violent and homicidal propensities.” Daniel Hernandez, who was holding a box-cutter style utility knife, was shot April 22 during a confrontation at the…

The NBC4 I-Team has learned that video from that shooting along with the officer’s social media posts may become key parts of that case. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Friday June 19, 2020.

While the use of body cameras are widely considered key to police reform, NBCLX storyteller Noah Pransky explains that costs and privacy issues can inhibit how they are adopted by police departments.