re: Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed

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The part about revealing police response/methods is what rubs people the wrong way - the response/methods are the entire reason everyone wants to see the footage.

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As for as article in OP that was in reference to state DPS officers both gathering evidence for investigation into response and any state DPS officer that showed up eventually to the scene to support the local cops after call for help. It was not talking about the local cops response outside of marked evidence DPS has gathered themselves for investigation into response. The letter to AG had multiple references and ruling requests, and it’s wasn’t an all or nothing pile on but had more nuance into various types of data they had which could have different rulings. It’s also mentioned several times at least until their active investigation is completed.

It was also not asking for all law enforcement but was specific to state DPS and records requests it had received (more than just VICE). Local cops, city, and district have been sent their own requests for cams and data, and the city has declined for now due to request of their local DA. Now that the school district’s chief of police is on city council (elected before and sworn in after) the city better push for transparency. Hiring a law firm to send a request for AG to rule on if dead suspect loophole applies to their police’s body cams and so on isn’t a good start as that could be use for a much longer time frame than current active investigation.

Not sure why people keep thinking the state DPS request for a ruling by AG about their specific requests in OP’s article is about all law enforcement.

Same for revealing methods as this was also about state DPS. Not just their marked evidence in an active investigation into response but any state DPS officer who eventually showed up to support the local response. They are not first responders to something like this, and how quickly they arrived, routes, specific departments/groups within state DPS that showed up could reveal things on similar responses as well as some who might have been in area investigating something else at the time. The Border Patrol declined same records request from VICE stating active investigation.