Breakdowns

Bodycam and use-of-force breakdowns. The footage, frame by frame.

He Said He Had a Gun. The Hostage Said He Didn’t. | Longmont Bodycam Breakdown

His hand was inside a brown handbag and he kept saying he had a gun. The woman he was holding kept saying he did not.

He Called the Cops on His Neighbor, Then Got a Sword | Kern County Bodycam Breakdown

A noise complaint. The man who called 911 is the man it ends with. It went sideways the second he said he was going to get his sword.

Two Tasers, Then He Reached for His Waistband | LASD Bodycam Breakdown

Deputies could see the gun in his waistband and said so on the air. Two TASER 10 deployments later, he reached for it anyway.

His Trauma Plate Stopped It. Then He Fired Back. | Anchorage Bodycam Breakdown

A misdemeanor shoplift with the suspect already detained in the back office. Nothing in the call mentioned a weapon.

A Blood Trail and a Cleaver Coming Down the Stairs | NYPD Bodycam Breakdown

A blood trail on a Lower East Side staircase and a man coming down with a butcher knife. The officer gave up the stairs instead of holding them.

He Backed Up Until the Knife Came Out | Corona Bodycam Breakdown

A Corona motor officer backed up about 100 feet off a man who beat a 78-year-old woman with a rock, and did not fire until the butcher knife came out.

He Put His Gun Away to Try to Talk Him Down | SAPD Bodycam Breakdown

A San Antonio officer holstered his weapon and offered to call a 69-year-old man’s daughter. Then the man reached for his back pocket, and officers fired.

He Walked Up to a Marked Patrol Car and Fired First | Jacksonville Bodycam Breakdown

A man walked up to a Jacksonville sergeant, pulled a gun, backed away and fired. The shooting is clean. The timing is the part worth arguing about.

4 Police Shootings: A Gun at a Police Station and a Cleaver on the Stairs – This Week’s Breakdown

Four fatal police shootings from Jacksonville, San Antonio, Corona and Manhattan, walked frame by frame from the released body camera video.
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