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Baltimore to put cameras in police vans, review riot gear
Source: Reuters
US | Wed Jul 1, 2015 2:52pm EDT
Baltimore to put cameras in police vans, review riot gear
BALTIMORE | BY DONNA OWENS
Cameras that can record will be installed in Baltimore police vans like the one in which Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday.
She said the cameras were among steps the city was taking after protests and rioting following Gray's death in April.
"We're working through a process that will place cameras with recording capabilities in the backs of all our police vans, to ensure that we have a more complete record of what occurs there," Rawlings-Blake told reporters.
The van in which Gray was transported had a non-recording camera that the driver could use to monitor the passengers, but it was not working at the time.
The city also is reviewing riot gear used by police during the unrest, when some of it failed to work. Baltimore needs the right equipment in case trouble breaks out following trial verdicts in the Gray case, she said.
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Baltimore to put cameras in police vans, review riot gear
BALTIMORE | BY DONNA OWENS
Cameras that can record will be installed in Baltimore police vans like the one in which Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday.
She said the cameras were among steps the city was taking after protests and rioting following Gray's death in April.
"We're working through a process that will place cameras with recording capabilities in the backs of all our police vans, to ensure that we have a more complete record of what occurs there," Rawlings-Blake told reporters.
The van in which Gray was transported had a non-recording camera that the driver could use to monitor the passengers, but it was not working at the time.
The city also is reviewing riot gear used by police during the unrest, when some of it failed to work. Baltimore needs the right equipment in case trouble breaks out following trial verdicts in the Gray case, she said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/us-usa-police-baltimore-idUSKCN0PB5RT20150701
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