Dash cam: Virginia deputy's unexplained tackle of driver

[KamaAina]

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/investigations/russ-ptacek/2015/04/08/stuart-fitzgerald-orange-county-dash-cam/25490153/

Although experts say dash cam video doesn't prove Stuart Fitzgerald committed any crime - or explain why a deputy threw him onto a highway - he could face more than 15 years in prison.

The audio is missing and images from other law enforcement cameras on the scene were never reviewed by investigators.

"I started screaming 'cause I was thinking he's probably gonna, I was thinking something bad's gonna happen," says 53-year-old Fitzgerald of Waldorf, Md. "That's when I started thinking about my boy and my wife and was thinking, am I gonna make it back home?"

After throwing Fizgerald to the ground and shackling him, authorities arrested him for felony assault on the two responding officers. The officers were not investigated for misconduct.

Waldorf is where Bertha Venation lives! It happened across the river in Virginia, but that's her neighbor! He could have sat next to her at a Blue Crabs game!

Oh, I almost forgot the obligatory photo. Place your bets...



53, black.

[msanthrope]

1. Their body cams were supposedly broken. nt

[libdem4life]

2. Take the info to the top...that's all that works these days. Get on the 24/7 news circuit.

Get an attorney who knows what he's doing. Slowly, but surely, the time are changing.

We need to press hard on National Officials to help communities organize People's Unions to counter the powerful police/fire Unions. Civilian Oversight...at the local level. It must happen.

[Adrahil]

3. I lived in Waldorf for 8 years.

So why was he pulled over? Cops just seem to escalate encounters for no reason sometimes!

[KamaAina]

4. He was pulled over in Virginia.

It's not Waldorf's fault.