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goddammit... "The Cloud" to the fuckin rescue AGAIN...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-video-arrest-20141209-story.html
In the early hours of a Sunday morning in March, Kianga Mwamba said, she was on the way home from a family gathering and about to stop to pick up some food for her children at the all-night restaurant Valentino's.
But as she got near, she stopped to record a group of police arresting a man across the street.
Mwamba, 36, flicked on the video recorder on her cell phone, telling officers she was allowed to record. But the situation quickly devolved into Mwamba's being hauled from her Toyota, tasered and charged with assaulting two police officers.
"I'm in shock for real, like are they really doing this to me," Mwamba said as she recalled the arrest in an interview this fall.
And when Mwamba was bailed out of jail that Monday morning, she said the video she made appeared to have been deleted from her phone. It was only when she checked another app that backed up her images and videos to the cloud that she found she still had a copy, she said.
Prosecutors dropped all the charges against Mwamba in September, concluding that there was insufficient evidence to move forward, and last week she filed a $7 million lawsuit against a number of officers she says were involved in her arrest and what she says was an attempt by police to destroy the footage.
The video she shot surfaced online Monday, prompting the Police Department to denounce the actions and language used by one officer.
Ok... so maybe, in the case of people recording video of police bullshit, having a cloud backup copy is pretty much a game changer. I'm not changing my stance on hating the cloud for all other things, but since cops love destroying evidence on a phone, this is where I'll break from my normal stance.
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