It's a cover up so Protests are Needed here in Ashe
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Mr.Clodhopper
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Posted 1:34 pm, 09/28/2016
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By which time the Oct. 1 date for HB972 will have come and gone. So I highly doubt the public will ever see the video.
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 1:22 pm, 09/28/2016
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No we know why the video hasnt been released yet. It probably wont be now until after a trial so as to not taint a jury
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aFicIoNadoS
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Posted 12:04 pm, 09/28/2016
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We have a right to see the video because law enforcement works for the public. For ever there has been a problem with law enforcement abusing their power. Most of the time its minor. Often its their own ignorance of the law. Probably the worst cases have been decades and decades of abuse by the LAPD where they had a long standing history of hiring white cops from the south because "they know how to deal with 'those' people". In the 70's and 80's NYPD was so corrupt that everyone knew the cops were on the take, but people let it slide because they corruption did keep the drug dealers and gangs in some check.
And now weve let the local law enforcement militarize. Weve let them move to BDU style uniforms, theyve been equipped with surplus equipment, judges have increased the use of no knock warrants.
So in a case where a member of the public is injured or killed, we have a right to know what really happened to try to reduce the abuse of power.
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pointman
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Posted 9:39 am, 09/28/2016
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This whole notion of police body cameras was predicated on the premise that the cameras would make the police more "transparent". The Shatley case seems to be anything BUT transparent.
Come on James Williams......release the video.
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taoistmaster
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Posted 6:35 pm, 09/27/2016
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How's that trigger happy Humpty Dumpty lookalike doing who by pure coincidence took a job pushing paper in the sweatiest armpit of Tennessee after this incident? Didn't one other officer become a glorified security guard at a hospital after that too? I think Sheriff Jimbo said both always had big dreams and eyes set on bigger pastures. No bigger pastures than Elizabethton and a rural mountain hospital parking lot.
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underdog2
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Posted 2:16 pm, 09/27/2016
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I think we all know what happened. May he stay in Tennessee.
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Mr.Clodhopper
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Posted 1:07 pm, 09/27/2016
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Yeah it does appear as the ball is being dropped..Seems this HB972 is a crock of bull, if the public is being recorded by dash or body cam, IMO the public should have access to these recordings.
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crestonflash
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Posted 12:03 pm, 09/27/2016
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Roy Cooper's SBI lab is running a little behind maybe?
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onlyinashe
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Posted 11:05 am, 09/27/2016
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Let's all go back to the day when there were no cameras dash or body to try and allow amateur law enforcement observers try to judge actions in the field, what were you left with? Statements from the folks involved and anyone who witnessed the events. Sure people lie, both in law enforcement and victims and perpetrators, it is up to those chosen, elected or hired to sort out the truth to do so in the best way they possibly can.
Why do you feel you are entitled to see the video? You were not there.
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itsnotright
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Posted 10:03 am, 09/27/2016
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Looking at the article on the Jefferson Post about Dallas Shatley. It seems to me that the sheriffs department is trying to cover up what happened and something needs to be done now before the new law goes in effect October 1st that police no longer have to make body and dash cam video public. Just like the protests in Charlotte one needs to happen right here in Ashe county before its too late (October 1st). Here is the article reposted as goashe will not let me link it
Jefferson Post Article:
Nearly 15 months have passed since Dallas Shatley was shot and killed in an altercation with the Ashe County Sheriff's Office last summer, and the public has yet to see the police filmed footage from that night.
Tuesday marks 447 days since the incident and the public has still heard little in the way of concrete answers as to how, exactly, Shatley lost his life on July 8, 2015.
That needs to change and it needs to change soon. Releasing the video might not answer all questions surrounding the shooting but it could go a long way.
Ashe County Sheriff James Williams has seen the footage from that night and the man in charge of the ongoing investigation into the shooting, Davidson County District Attorney Garry Frank, has the authority to release the video to the public.
According to previous statements by Williams, a deputy was dragged by a vehicle driven by Shatley and shots were fired.
Frank has been questioned numerous times about the release of the footage from that night but has not indicated whether that will ever happen and time just might be running out due to a new state law that goes into effect Oct. 1.
HB972, which overwhelmingly passed the state house and senate earlier this year, effectively shifts the public's access to police dash and body cameras. It was signed into law by Governor Pat McCrory this summer.
The new law means body camera and dash camera footage are no longer public record, a shift the Jefferson Post argues defeats the purpose of recording police interactions with the public. Instead, the recordings are now considered "personnel records."
The new law provides some provisions for gaining access to footage, but law enforcement agencies can deny requests on several grounds, which would force the public to seek a court order to compel law enforcement to release the recordings.
The law is unclear if the footage shot prior to the law's passage – like the Shatley shooting – is covered by the provisions, but Frank should release the videos this week to ensure the public has access to information it needs to see.
Frank said in July he expected to finish his investigation into the shooting by mid-August. That deadline has come and gone.
It's been 447 days. Work faster, please.
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