Sometimes surveillance works in citizens’ favor.
A New Jersey man was facing five years in prison for charges of eluding police and assault, after he was arrested during a traffic stop. Now a second police dashcam video, obtained by a reporter, has revealed that the man had his hands up and was beaten by police. Charges against Marcus Jeter of Bloomfield, New Jersey have been dropped, and two Bloomfield police officers have been charged with falsifying records. One of the officers, Orlando Trinidad, has also been charged with aggravated assault, and a third pleaded guilty earlier to tampering.
If the video had not been revealed, according to Jeter’s defense attorney, “an innocent man would be in jail today.”