Citizens rally for Anchorage police body cams after more than 2-year delay:
Speakers, supporters, and spectators swarmed Anchorage’s Town Square to stand in solidarity and increase pressure on the Anchorage Police Department. Most pushed for the department’s use of body-worn cameras as many say they’re tired of waiting for the technology to be introduced.
“Body cameras have been proven to be important to protect the police and community and to find out what really happens when there’s an incident with police and citizens,” Curtner said. “It’s everywhere in the state of Alaska, it’s everywhere in the United States except Anchorage, and we just can’t understand what the hold up is.”
“It’s a topic that cuts to the heart of some of the most pressing we face: issues of trust, accountability, and justice,” Erin Jackson-Hill told a crowd of gatherers., and said the body cam delay is an issue of public safety. James Day, speaking for the NAACP Anchorage, demanded that the police department begin using body cams.
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