Seattle Police Dept Loses Thousands Of Police Videos

[jeremyshambles]

this is how they fight back agains citizens begining to film more and more police/citizen interactions.. vile

[SOLROSENBERG2]

I have a lot of respect for this news station. My brother was convicted a charge where the video evidence would have reduced his sentence (not exonerated) but was "lost". This didn't happen in Seattle but I'm sure this isn't only an issue there.

[PyROphantasie]

BEST NEWS STATION EVER!!!!!

[TRUTHringsTRUE]

You go seattle!!!

[nelsonbig]

The Largest Street Gang in America

/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4

[IloveJesusYesId0]

They should all be forced to wear cameras on their person as well..

[athiog]

That police spokesman is a fucking lying scumbag. It's so obvious that he is covering up the truth. What a piece of shit.

[NWKBricks1]

Excellent work, KOMO! Thanks for this video, Moxy!

[TheGreatBunghole16]

Free Cascadia!

[OmarThePug]

Its organized crime. Welcome to the new America.

[intellectualgiant911]

free chris monfort

[TheMindofCory]

0 people are idiots

[movingtodie]

I saw this today.. I wish I knew how to help the cause.

[DirtyCodingHabitz]

All the videos should still be in the computers because even if you delete it it will still be there, unless they wipe the disk = on purpose.

[baalisgod666]

I LOVE MOXNEWS.COM :)

[Bluebalz]

yo mox! i see alot of local news, good stuff.. do you smoke weed all day and watch news? All that news would drive me insane because of everything i would see wrong in this world

[baalisgod666]

Fuck the police. This is why I love hearing about dead ones.

[angrynhpatriot]

of course they lost it......fucking idiots...do they not think the whole country will find out...it shows you how corupt these scum are....they are well paid gangsters and well paid by us....vote down budgets...we need to get away from these people

[2tur]

Do not allow these Officers to represent the entire Police Force. These Officers believe they are above the law of Citizens, this is where they are mistaken. There are so many honest, hard-working Police Officers out there who are misrepresented due to stunts such as this. Do not hate the Police, hate the individual responsible. These Officers make those who work hard look bad.

[chocomalk]

The only way these videos were "lost", is if they ran a full wipe on their hard drives and then physically destroyed them.

This would take a very long time and would not have been accidental. If they have just been deleted normally the information is still there.

[DonSSanders]

Every last member of the SPD must be fired NOW...let them reapply at the end of the line.

[Polydynamix]

@DonSSanders the beauty of chain of command is that there is only ever 1 guilty person.

[Polydynamix]

@DonSSanders the beauty of chain of command is that there is only ever 1 guilty person.

[raiden409]

damn i wish my news station was like that.

[coolrog7564]

@AgeBotany12 as once said integrity can be an expensive thing. integrity is required to practice actual journalism where opinion and money do not dictate the outcome. what you have today can barely even be called reporting never mind journalism. go back as far as you can in time and look at a tv or radio newscast. no flashy crap and scare mongering. was there propaganda, yes that is always a given with media but it was counter balanced by a much larger independent media. deregulation killed em.

[coolrog7564]

@coolrog7564 you can download "orwell rolls in his grave" which gives a good encapsulated view of what has happened. i also recomend the documentary "peace,propaganda and the promised land" that illustrates how omission and use of language creates mindset.

[AK8591]

lowest form of humanity are people that would like about known actions that are unjust against the public, by a PUBLIC SERVANT

[NoNORADon911]

911 Pent-A-con videos, 911 airport video, 911 FAA audio, 911 black box's,

Okc bombing video, London 7-7 bombing, these police videos,

ALL MISSING! Even the fooking alleged MOON landing video.

The CRIMINALS don't like to show they are guilty, big surprise!

USA land of LIES. Welcome to the grand illusion.

[energytomatter]

Any have KOMO's email or PH# so I can thank them? 

[wildthunder009]

Seattle is rotted to the core.

[chronDiggity]

also, damn good job by the local news on this

[Thayer79]

Kudos to the news org that is fighting this! Not many news organizations actually care enough to do this.

[chronDiggity]

I feel so sorry for the good cops who have to work with the ones they KNOW are the problem. I really wish they would step forward on everyone's behalf more.

Things CAN get better. It's not impossible.

[jawayetti]

We should flood the Seattle police with FOIA requests.

[DonSolo52]

This Country is fucked.. Don't these cops ever wonder what kind of world their kids and grandkids will grow up in?

[chronDiggity]

@DonSolo52

Yeah, a world where they too are cops. That's what they think.

Remember in Blade Runner when he says "If you aint one of us, you're little people."

THATS HOW THEY VIEW US.

[dafttool]

Oops?

[RosenKrantz666]

Is Seattle PD in the running to the most corrupt copTHUG department in America, next to NYPD & Denver PD?

WTF is going on over there? It's like CopBlock.org needs to open a franchise up in the NW, permanently. Every week it's something. Hesus Cristos!

This is the unfortunate irony of "wealthier" cities: invariably w/all the Fed.Res.Notes pouring in, along w/ DHS-Federalized/militarized local copthugs post-9/11, they become bigger tyranny, armed w/more expensive citizenry-oppressing toys.

[btigtime2]

Wow, the man felt like he was attacked by a gang. I know what he is talking about. They behave like a cult. This is like the 9/11 security videos of the Pentagon.

[koolbreeeeeze]

they learned by watching LAPD

[koolbreeeeeze]

seattle police are nothin but a bunch of bullies

[branchingvine]

As was already said...the police any more are getting to be nothing but a brute squad, bully force...no longer there primarily to protect the citzens but to be revenue collectors for the criminal kabals in charge! If Americans wish to keep or get their freedoms back...sooner or later they're going to have to become united in a stand of strength, say no more, this is the line and mean it.

[mirandansa]

In London this morning, I jaywalked with a cop.

[coolrog7564]

@AgeBotany12 I could be wrong but I think most media legal cases that would involve the public or pvt citizens would be about slander or misrepresentation. there could also be obtaining info through illegal means or compulsion to reveal sources and if they don't face prosecution. if there is a legal action being taken against them they could possibly gain an exposure of opinion advantage by covering it as a news story or through editorialising and pundint commentary.

[tbmagis]

The Seattle PD is very "lispy."

[HUJUism]

Fire all individuals involved!!!

[vinnys025]

Seattle and Everette police are OUT OF CONTROL. They harass us daily!!! Set up entrapment checkpoints and think they run the world. If you go 5 over on the highway, your getting run down by cops, they are all over I-5 and are looking for ANY reason to pull you over. Not only that but there are super high tech camera's and speed capture camera's lined up all over the highway. Seattle is a big brother police state in the making. This is not new behavior, ask citizens about the police's actions.

[derberg19486]

Visit America? Not in your life! They have gone off the deep end

[Demosthenes0725]

Leave it to the local news to do any real reporting.

[RadarKat73080]

They're not lost, just go to a Republican stag party! Nothing gives a GOP man a woody faster than police brutality.

[Zentz29]

Good for you Komo news! Sue the shit right out of em'!

[illmatador2]

thats how it goes when u put a mexican in charge of the police, just look at mexico and all the drugs going on there

[TheItalix]

Video tapes are only useful as evidence against you. That's why people have come to accept security.

[violentpimple]

cant help but feel like theres something fishy about this. Lots of anti police stories coming out.

[lestliness]

How did the seattle police get so corrupt? I thought Seattle people were too busy drinking coffee and eating scones..

[cruiscinlan]

what's going on in Seattle? is the problem between the news station and the police, or between the wider public and the police? there is so much distrust, makes me curious what's at the base of it. Are Seattle cops from Seattle, mostly? seems like they're foreign invaders the way this news station reports on them. interesting

[Optis78]

Tyranny!

[Theapeinacrate76]

Cops are the same were I live to.

[alwayzAngry]

THIS is what the news media's purpose is.... notice the network is KOMO... not FOX, NBC, CBS, etc.....

[wretchedSTONER]

Police being corrupt? Who would've guessed.....

[seanlaca]

Seattle police have gone NYPD style.

[LiberaLib]

i live on the other side of the country but i wish i could watch KOMO 4 just so i could support what they're doing.

[1140Cecile]

High commendations to KOMO 4 News for not letting this go away. News organizations often need access to police officials when working on stories and KOMO is risking denial of such access by suing the department. It's good to see a news organization standing on journalistic principles rather than being intimidated by loss of access.

[DiceWarwick]

when the police are not watched, they can do the most Asshole of things, and good cops have to clean up the shit left behind, and that is a lot of shit to clean that they did not lave behind.

[44prot]

LOL @jewtube!

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Can't even walk without being on the wrong side of the state! That's how tightly screwed down they have the nation.

[katards]

Does everyone know that Illinois has made it Illegal to video or tape cops without their permission? That you can spend up to 16 years in prison with a felony charge?

[usergently]

A good cop is a DEAD cop. Take that Jewtube and secret Services whores.

[44prot]

"To me belongeth vengeance and recompense ; Their foot shall slide in due time ; For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them makes haste"

[PQRLOVE]

It's pretty obvious that you'd all do better if you'd just put your cops in jail - less crime.

[RadarKat73080]

@PQRLOVE Like politicians, there are good cops; like one or two!

[maverick10241]

@PQRLOVE in tn you cant criticize any police officer without be arrested and thrown in jail.police in tn consider themselves as gods and the citizens as slaves. don't believe it then watch the Darren ring video and see these gods at work.just my opinion

[WhatAxBrit]

go komo :)

[aybesee123]

ooooppss.......

[sketchyj]

when I was maced after surrendering, arrested for vehicular eluding and sent to prison for 2 years, the public pretender couldn't get any video from the dashcam because they lied about saying I didn't use a turn signal. In court, they mixed up my clothes, giving me old ill fitting clothes instead of my own to wear for the jury.

[Hauteur723]

Thank you! Sue those corrupt bastards!

[faulconandsnowjob]

Thank you, KOMO, for suing the corrupt cops.