appears to be a shocking distortion of the truth. it s a drama straight from hollywood. hollywood, florida, that is. andre, come here a minute. heard on camera, four police officers and a civilian staffer appear to conspire to frame a young woman for an accident one of them caused. i m going to put words in his mouth. she went to accelerate, a cat jumped out. midnight, february 17, 2009. this caught on camera catastrophe starts with a cat. after having a few beers with friends, 23-year-old alexandra torrence vilas has just rescued a stray. i went over my friend s house who lives on 95 and sheridan street. he had a cat that he was going to surrender. and i said, no, no, i ll take the cat home with me. but driving home the georgetown university student
i m going to have you perform some field sobriety tests, okay? okay. i m going to advise you that you re on camera. i ll read you your miranda warnings. the entire time he reads her her rights she s putting herself to rights. at last, she s ready for her close-up. first thing i want to do is look at your eyes. i need you to put your feet close together as you can. i can t do that. i m bow-legged. that s okay. just as well as you can. just as close as you can. can you see the tip of my pen? yes, sir. while keeping your head still, follow the tip of my pen with your eyes only. she has trouble with the first test so he goes on to the next. do you think you can walk along that line right there? this line? yeah. put your left foot on the line. nobody can do that. darn. what, put their left foot on the line? nobody can do that. lots of people can do it. nobody can do that. ain t nobody in the world can walk like this. after failing the first two tests, n
night, it was 0.28, which was over two times the legal limit. he s serving 20 years for four counts of vehicular homicide. this desperate chase is all caught on camera, but it need not be played for val verde to remember. the awful event is seared in his mind and probably will be for the rest of his life. like nothing i ve ever experienced. you can be doing nothing wrong, just driving down the highway, minding your own business, and something like this pops out of nowhere, and your life is taken. driving is probably the most dangerous thing that we do every day. coming up a driver has a mysterious car accident. what are the chances that a cat jumps out the window and you re rear-ended by a cop? but it s what the cops do about it that s shocking.
hi, i m richard lui with your hour s top stories. the suspected gunman accused of an ambush style attack on a philadelphia police officer was arraigned moments ago on eight charges including four felonies. police say surveillance videos edward archer firing at the officer and then fleeing. archer was appointed a public defender and was denied bail. the officer involved was shot three times but is expected to be okay. now back to caught on camera. welcome back to caught on camera. i m contessa brewer. a dashboard camera is a powerful witness, its record can back up an officer s testimony, saving court time and keeping everyone honest. but, in our next story, some officers forget the camera is on while they engage in what
january 25, 2002, 1:30 p.m. state trooper mike val verde is west of albuquerque, new mexico, patrolling i-40, the most heavily traveled highway in the state. suddenly, he gets a shock. there s a white truck going the wrong way on the divided highway, and it s headed straight for him. it actually was in the fast lane, and this thing wasn t doing anything but coming at us. val verde yanks his car to the right to avoid a collision and hits his lights. initiated my emergency equipment, which is what activates my camera. the driver sails by, oblivious, at 70 miles an hour. val verde knows he must try to stop him before he kills someone. the officer calls for backup and makes a violent u-turn, just managing to avoid hitting an oncoming car. i pursue the vehicle in the westbound lanes of traffic so i m going the correct flow of traffic and i m watching him go against traffic. it s traffic chaos.