(oops; typo on my part, I noticed - thanks for correctly interpreting my gibberish) I was indeed referring to that sort of video. But "context" is always going

(oops; typo on my part, I noticed - thanks for correctly interpreting my gibberish) I was indeed referring to that sort of video. But "context" is always going to be a get out of jail free card even with a bodycam if grand juries and prosecutors are willing to just plain make stuff up. So while there's some support for your point about the Rodney King stuff, the cops also made claims like "we thought he was on PCP" (which turned out not to be the case). Clearer video of Rodney King standing back up could still be interpreted as an intent to charge at the officers by a jury that's predisposed to believe everything that cops say. I'm currently seeing this play out in Sydney, Australia, where a cop just kicked an unresisting teen suspects' feet out from under him (while holding his arms behind his back). All the relevant material is on video, and yet we see officials more or less freely inventing exculpatory "context" that supposedly justifies what happens. If you have a network of people around the cops who will just accept "we were afraid for our lives" as an excuse to do anything, no amount of bodycams will solve that problem.