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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lindsay Whitehurst

Group pushes for change in how police use body camera footage in officer shooting probes

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

An influential policing think tank is pushing law enforcement agencies to change how they handle body camera footage after police shootings, saying officers should not be able to review video before making their first statements to investigators.

The Police Executive Research Forum changed its position in a report released Friday, nearly 10 years after the group was first tapped by the Justice Department to write guidelines for agencies adopting body cameras.

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