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The Lemp case has a number of pertinent differences. First let me say that the bodycam footage to this day hasn't been released. Until it is, I give very littl
by jmyeet 5y ago
The Lemp case has a number of pertinent differences.
First let me say that the bodycam footage to this day hasn't been released. Until it is, I give very little weight to the claims made by police. In fact this should be a rule: bodycam footage should be required for serving all warrants, arresting any suspect and so on. The police simply have too much power that can be abused and video footage (bodycam and amateur) has many times exposed the police lying.
Kemp at least was the subject of the warrant. I'm not saying this to justify excessive police violence. But it is a key difference.
As for what happened during the raid, it's hard to make conclusions since we don't have the bodycam footage.
- throwaway040922 5y ago> The Lemp case has a number of pertinent differences. You were comparing the Locke case to the Abou-Khatwa case in the article (about a white collar criminal the FBI was going after, where guns weren't involved) and the Rittenhouse case (shootings which didn't involve any law enforcement agency). The shootings of Locke, Lemp, and Taylor all have certain differences, but they're much more similar to each other than to those other cases.