Heineken Trickbagged

This time body cams tripped up the Chief of Patrol:

• Newly released Chicago police body-camera footage shows officers were briefly told to steer clear of an Oct. 4 confrontation between protesters and federal agents in Brighton Park after a Border Patrol agent shot a woman.

  The heavily blurred videos, released Friday, confirmed the Chicago Sun-Times’ reporting that Chicago Police Department officers were ordered not to respond “per the chief of patrol,” Jon Hein, which has since sparked an intense backlash.

  These videos come after police officials blocked the public release earlier this month of body-camera and drone footage, saying it would hinder an internal investigation against Hein. Police Supt. Larry Snelling has defended Hein and said his officers were never told to “stand down.”

Years ago, we were warned (and passed along warnings) that body camera footage was going to be used incidentally, to trick-bag Officers, especially side conversations that had little to do with the situation being handled....and that is EXACTLY what happened here:

• On the body-camera videos, a dispatcher is heard telling officers that federal agents are “being surrounded by a large crowd of people” and are “requesting CPD.” The dispatcher tells officers leaving the station to “immediately head down to 39th Place and Kedzie [Avenue]” and “go assist.” “There are a lot of cars, so just use caution, please,” the dispatcher says.

  Several minutes later, a lieutenant can be heard over the radio telling officers not to respond to 39th and Kedzie, “per the chief of patrol.” Moments later, the dispatcher confirms, “We’re not sending anybody over to that location.”

  An officer at the scene working on a traffic crash report says her team is “blocked in” but will get out as soon as they can.

  “If you need resources, we’ll send you whatever you need,” the lieutenant tells the officer. And later, he tells the dispatcher: “Get them the information they need, and get them out of there.”

  “Again, those are the orders we’re being given,” the lieutenant says. In another video, several officers can be heard discussing the order. “They are gonna do the car accident report, and we’re getting out of here,” one officer says. “He doesn’t want us hanging around here.”

That's at a minimum, THREE separate incidents of body camera footage being revealed - not over actual actions, but over the orders being given by exempt staff and conveyed to the field supervisors and Officers.

What are the chances that there are more videos? Dozens more, because everyone has a camera and everyone should have had it activated. 100%?

What are the chances that every one of these conversations, transmissions, discussions got it wrong or misunderstood? Even if half got it wrong, that means half got it right and they're all digitally preserved.

Is Larritorious going to backtrack on his unqualified support of Heineken?