The lawsuit also claims several officers involved in the raid had been issued Axon body cameras with upgraded systems designed to signal nearby cameras to record automatically when a police vehicle’s light bar turns on.
“Simply put, it would have been difficult for most of the LMPD members with body cameras … to not have had their Axon body cameras activated at one point or another during the raid. Even those who may have left cameras in vehicles or other locations should have been activated to an event mode from a buffering mode, so long as the camera was within range of Signal unit,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit obtained by ABC also claims that LMPD still has not turned over an audit trail of the footage from the body cameras, as requested by Aguiar’s office on June 1. The audit trail would identify key details, including the time of the recordings, the user, and the identity of anyone who accessed the footage, according to the lawsuit.
