And the body cam breach is only one part of the police's internal investigation. ASP Alejandro Hernandez from the Compliance Unit explained that there are four policies in all to see if the police officers breached them.
ASP Alejandro Hernandez, Compliance Unit
"We are considering four policies, which are the body cam policies that he mentioned, we're dealing with the pursuit policy, the use of force policy and the human rights policy. When it comes to the use of force, there is limited information I want to give since the investigation is presently ongoing. There's many things that I won't mention about it, but when it comes to the pursuit policy, our officers, based on information received, they acted upon but they were factors to consider, for example, time of the day, the condition of the road, specifically to save life, was there population density out on the road that night. Based on the information received of shots fired and officers returning fire, they had to consider if they continue to pursue or leave it at that but after communicating with the station commander that night, he was going to view these factors and decide that we continue with this pursuit or not because if they had prior knowledge of these persons, where they can be found, then the pursuit could have stopped. The pursuit policy also states that if you're in pursuit of someone fleeing, you should not fire warning shots."
"We have a body cam [policy] that where there's an incident, body comes must be on at all times but if it is a sensitive like sexual nature then body cams are to stay off. But since those incident happen, those body cams should have been on at all times."
