Police body cameras are meant to protect the public and promote accountability. When officers fail to activate cameras, turn them off, delete footage, or delay release, the harm can be serious. Victims may suffer physical injuries, emotional trauma, wrongful arrest, or the loss of a loved one—without video evidence to prove what really happened. Compensation …
Police body cameras are often the most important evidence in misconduct cases. When that evidence is missing, altered, or withheld, victims may have grounds for a lawsuit. A police body camera misconduct lawsuit focuses on accountability and police body camera misconduct compensation—especially when video evidence could have shown what truly happened. When Body Camera Misconduct …
When police body camera footage disappears, victims are often told nothing can be done. That is not always true. A police body camera misconduct lawyer helps uncover what happened, preserve remaining evidence, and hold departments accountable through police body camera misconduct compensation. How Lawyers Help in Body Camera Cases An experienced civil rights lawyer can: …
Require body cameras, hold police publicly accountable and stand up to powerful unions to rid system of racist practices. Ben Crump Opinion Contributor For decades, we have heard pledges from police chiefs and city leaders that they will reform policing and eliminate the persistent brutality that characterizes far too many encounters between police officers and …
By Ben Crump Ben Crump is a civil rights and trial attorney and founder of Ben Crump Law, headquartered in Washington, D.C. George Floyd’s close-to-last words in life — “I can’t breathe” — capture perfectly how so many black Americans feel in watching the slow, grueling video of his death. Another black person killed. Another …
The Minneapolis police department’s failure to arrest the officers responsible threatens our most basic sense of justice Ben Crump and Jasmine Rand Get off of his neck.” “Please! Please!” “I can’t breathe.” Police in America have far too many non-lethal ways to reliably kill black men without facing criminal charges. The weaponization of racism does …
