{"id":41177,"date":"2014-02-24T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/oh-look-dash-cam-footage-indicts-more-cops.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:16:19","slug":"oh-look-dash-cam-footage-indicts-more-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/oh-look-dash-cam-footage-indicts-more-cops.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, look, dash cam footage indicts more cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Strangely enough, it&#39;s dash cam footage that the cops never turned over to prosecutors or the defense &#8212; and footage without which an innocent man would have been sent to jail.<\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder about other convicts who claim they&#39;re innocent. Sure, that can be a self-serving lie, too. But the more cases like this that come up, the more the presumption that the cop version of what happened\u00a0in a dispute can simply be trusted implicitly is shaken. And that&#39;s not good for anyone &#8212; especially the police who are doing their job correctly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some cops think they can do whatever the hell they want. Fortunately they didn&#39;t get away with it in this case.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ZLbqjdj3kwk_ijIpxQX9UancOFdjT7UzmrE34u_HtfZoMy8vWsMHNFiAYhYHpjnVE2Q4r4ji_hYdgEdc5gd_NNvLYVZw-ac8bsCTljbNLLqLe0nH7d8=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/02\/22\/new-jersey-man-escapes-5-year-sentence-after-dash-cam-footage-clears-him-indicts-cops\/#.UwtcL32i-PE.google_plusone_share'>New Jersey man escapes 5 year sentence after dash cam footage clears him, indicts cops | The Raw Story<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Evidence from a dashboard camera on a police cruiser ended a nightmare for a New Jersey man facing false charges of eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. Prosecutors dismissed all the criminal charges against Marcus Jeter, 30, of Bloomfield, N.J. and instead indicted two Bloomfield &#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VK366xZGXxB' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely enough, it&#39;s dash cam footage that the cops never turned over to prosecutors or the defense &#8212; and footage without which an innocent man would have been sent to jail. Makes you wonder about other convicts who claim they&#39;re innocent. Sure, that can be a self-serving lie, too. But the more cases like this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/oh-look-dash-cam-footage-indicts-more-cops.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, look, dash cam footage indicts more cops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32529,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/russians-dash-cams-and-meteor-strikes.html","url_meta":{"origin":41177,"position":0},"title":"Russians, dash cams, and meteor strikes","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Feb-13 9:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's first thought was that the dash cam footage she was seeing of the Russian meteor strikes was from cops. 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