r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut

I’m putting you on the stand: Watch this and tell me if this looks original.

I had been demanding body cam for months. They delayed it. They slow-walked it. And during that delay, my life was collapsing. My insurance agency contracts were falling apart because of the pending charge. My income went to zero. I was emailing the City of Sunrise, the police chief, clerks, records people — everyone — explaining what I remembered, what I knew, and what did not make sense.

Maybe that was the best trap I ever set without realizing it. Or maybe it was their biggest mistake.

Because I told them the issues before I ever saw the body cam. I told them the paperwork did not match what happened. I told them how negligent they were with my son. I told them my dogs were given back to the alleged victim even though I had a no-contact order. I told them this was not some clean one-officer arrest. I told them the scene was bigger than what they were writing down.

Then when the body cam finally came?

The script was already in place.

Clip starts all officers turn on camera same time.. Three officers already together in the elevator. Already grouped up. Already synced. Already moving like the real beginning happened somewhere else.

This is Bradford Jones’ body cam. FIELD TRAINING OFFICER.

Jones wasn’t background. Jones ran the arrest. Jones rode with me from the arrest point to Sunrise PD. Jones was involved through transport. Jones was there for the whole chain.

I remember riding with him after all this, telling him, “I’m coming back for you, man. I promise this isn’t going to end like the other arrests.” I meant it legally — paperwork, court, discovery, video, truth. Man to man, he knew I was serious. He knew how bad they messed up. He knew this wasn’t going to be another arrest where someone gets broken, takes the charge, disappears, and never figures out what happened.

Then Jones disappeared from the paper trail.

No dispatch for him. No arrival for him. Not listed when the State gave me the relevant names of people with information about the case. Not listed the way an officer this involved should be listed. But I rode with him from the arrest point, to Sunrise PD, toward BSO jail.

His body cam was not produced until after I sued federally.

That is not a background officer.

A GHOST OFFICER

Now watch Bush..

Before he enters, he appears to motion Jones in ahead of him — almost like he wants Jones’ body cam in front, not behind him. Then Bush goes straight to the balcony door like he already knows the layout and shoulders it hard.

Maybe they were trying to create some kind of forced-entry angle. Maybe not. I’m not saying I know. I’m saying watch it.

Jones told him to relax, then Bush shows the door works fine anyway.

So he did not need to do that..

Then Bush waits around for about five minutes. He waits for what sounds like an audio or radio cue. Then he leaves.

And when the footage cuts back, Bush is coming back filling out a witness affidavit. I asked him during depostions why he was filling out a witness affidavit when he was not listed anywhere as even assisting in the case. His answer was basically that those are throwaways. He said they fill them out all the time and just throw them out.

Did you hear that clearly?

A police officer is telling you they can fill out these witness affidavits, maybe use them, maybe toss them, maybe get the story later, and either way the arrest is already happening.

That is the problem.

Because if paperwork can be filled out like a throwaway, if officers can float paperwork during the scene and decide later what matters, then how clean is the probable cause? How clean is the official story? How clean is the arrest narrative?

Around the key window, the cameras cut. No clear injury check. No clear “I want charges pressed.” No clean welfare check for my son. No clean timeline.

Jones and Lawrence leave the apartment for who knows what. The complainant even sounds confused, like, “Are you guys coming back?”

Then they say they need a “tac debrief.”

A tactical debrief for what?

Why are officers leaving the apartment during the key victim-contact window?

They leave, and about six minutes later, suddenly she gives a short statement that I bit her.

So help me understand this.

What happened in those six minutes? Why does it cut to her looking coached and muted before the statement? Why do they not even seem to know what time it’s supposed to be? Why is the radio traffic so loud and constant during a “victim approach”?

Have you ever heard that much radio noise in a normal police interaction, let alone when officers are supposedly talking to a victim?

When I finally got the body cam, I was shocked.

Because from my side, that scene was insane. Chaotic. Loud. Dogs scared. Officers everywhere. Me detained forever before cuffs. People moving in and out. Cameras cutting. Radio traffic everywhere.

But the body cam they gave me?

Around fifteen minutes of this clean, cookie-cutter “approach” that starts after the real beginning should have happened.

Watch the clip. Compare it to the paperwork.

Look at the timing. Look at the cuts. Look at the officer movement. Look at Jones missing from discovery. Look at Cason having no camera produced. Look at Bush coming back with affidavit paperwork after a cut. Look at his own deposition answer about these being “throwaways.” Look at how a multi-officer scene became a one-officer paper story.

Does this look like the original, clean, continuous body cam of their approach? Or does it look clipped, staged, reconstructed, or re-filmed to manufacture probable cause after the fact?.

Paperwork vs. video.
Discovery vs. body cam.
Ghost officer vs. official story.

Federal civil rights case: Gautam v. City of Sunrise, 0:25-cv-60841.

Shield.

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