Dash-Cam Video Clears NJ Man in Violent Traffic Stop

[yuiyoshida]

Marcus Jeter faced a years-long prison sentence.

The New Jersey DJ, 30, was arrested in a 2012 traffic stop and charged with eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. Prosecutors insisted that Jeter do prison time.

"The first plea was five years," Jeter said.

But after Jeter's attorney, Steven Brown, filed a request for records, all of the charges against him were dropped, with dash-cam video apparently showing what really happened June 7, 2012. Now, the officers are facing charges.

The video, which prosecutors say they never saw before filing the initial charges, shows Jeter holding his hands above his head.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dash-cam-video-clears-nj-man-violent-traffic/story?id=22660928

video at link.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Further proof that there need to be cameras (and audio)

of EVERY interaction between police and public.

[notrightatall]

2. And a need for a nation wide house cleaning of many, many, many oficers.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Does the cop not know that those dash cams have video as well as audio?

How was he so confidant that the video would not show up in court? I'm guessing we have the intense national scrutiny on police brutality to thank for the fact that they could not destroy it.

[Hoppy]

4. And was the prosecutor guilty of malfeasance?

Why didn't that asshole request the videos before charging him?