Only 1 of 4 bodycams caught full Austin-East shooting

A deadly encounter in a high school bathroom between four Knoxville Police Department officers and a teenage student with a gun marked the first big test for the department's brand-new body cameras.

Two of the four officers' cameras fell off during the struggle, clanging on the bathroom floor, while a third camera didn't start recording until after Officer Jonathon Clabough fatally shot 17-year-old Anthony Thompson Jr. at Austin-East Magnet High School.



Eleven days before the shooting, the city announced it had rolled out new Axon body cameras to all uniformed Knoxville Police Department officers. The bodycams, which are designed to operate largely automatically, came with new in-car camera systems in a five-year contract that cost taxpayers nearly $5 million.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2021/04/25/knoxville-police-bodycams-anthony-thompson-shooting/7350503002/

I bet they went with the lowest bidder, too. Magnetic body cams? BAD idea. The minute there's a scuffle, those will hit the floor for sure.