A better title wound be "Police reposition bodycam in vain attempt to limit evidence of police brutality that got one convicted and the rest lost their badges"
... but that's more than 80 characters.
... but that's more than 80 characters.
Without the 3rd party CCTV footage to expose this, the suspect would probably be facing additional penalties for "resisting arrest".
The arrest is often structured in a way, such as shouting "stop resisting!" almost no matter what, to make it difficult for observers to understand what they are seeing. It's liability management. They lose nothing by doing this and gain a very serious personal and department risk reduction.