Two recent law enforcement interventions in Greensboro and Winston-Salem have prompted questions about police use of force. In Greensboro, died in the hospital hours after he was restrained by police in a position his family described as being 鈥渉ogtied.鈥� The family鈥檚 lawyer says the position left Smith unable to breathe. Smith鈥檚 family recently made a public request for Greensboro City Council members to review the police body camera footage from the incident.
In Winston-Salem, the city鈥檚 police department did publicly release body camera footage after the contentious arrest of a 14-year-old Hanes Magnet Middle School student by a school resource officer. The incident was caught on camera by a bystander, and local news organizations petitioned for the release of the full police body camera footage.
That video is . Host Frank Stasio speaks with about the two stories and the bigger questions they raise about police body camera footage in North Carolina.
