Where is Chauvin's bodycam footage?
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Mark Crispin Miller
Jun 1, 2020, 6:04:34 PM6/1/20
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Bodycam use by Minneapolis police hits record highs this year
August 14, 2019 10:24 p.m.
An officer at the Minneapolis Police Department shows a body-worn camera in September 2017.
Maria Alejandra Cardona | MPR News
Minneapolis police are turning on their body cameras during nearly all of their interactions with the public, according to a report presented to the City Council Wednesday.
Reviews showed officers used the cameras an average of 95 percent of the time in April, May and June — up from 93 percent in the first quarter of this year.
The reviews indicate a significant improvement since the initial months of the body camera program in 2017, when officers were activating their cameras in less than a third of cases.
City officials cracked down the body camera policy in 2018, in the months following the killing of Justine Ruszczyk. Officers didn’t activate their cameras in time to capture the shooting.
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