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Police wear riot-control gear during a Black Lives Matter protest last June. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Virginia Democrats continued to push for legislation this session to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct.
But most of those efforts to “police the police” were cut short.
A proposal to require police agencies to release body-worn camera footage to the public following use-of-force incidents failed to pass the House of Delegates.
This disappointed police reform advocates like Chelsea Higgs Wise.
“The conversations about releasing the body cam tapes, for me, really said that we’re not going to listen to community voices,” she said. “When we say we need to hear the tapes, when we say our side of the story, legislators said, ‘We’re still going to take the word of cops.’”
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