Newly released body camera footage is giving insight into the incident that led to a police officer being accused of using excessive force for beating a handcuffed man while his fellow officers turned away-with one of them even moving his Body Cam so that it would not capture the assault.
Police in Louisville, Indiana, located a car that they claimed was reported stolen around 3 a.m. on Sunday, and when they attempted to pull it over, driver Ray Maurice Bard, 36, led them on a chase that ended when he crashed into a concrete garage, according to a
report from the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Bard then fled the scene. He jumped over a fence and ran through a backyard, and when police caught up to him, they tased him and put him in handcuffs. The report noted that when searching the suspect, officers found "a plastic bag filled with a variety of narcotics including seven grams of methamphetamine, four grams of heroin and four grams of cocaine, among others."
The footage from the body camera worn by one of the officers, which was recently released, is notable because it shows the officers' attitudes during the incident.
The officer wearing the body camera is joking, chuckling and laughing maniacally throughout the video, showing that he knew Bard was not a dangerous suspect.
Comment: For more on the mentality of criminals and killers see: The Myth of the Out of Character Crime and Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton E. Samenow, Ph. D.