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A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.

The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Or skip the cell phone pairing. Keep an eSIM in the recorder and upload it that way. Easier said than done, I suppose.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Blackvue has SIM card options with cloud storage. My blackvue 4K can do it But you have to pay a subscriber fee to them for the storage.

I bought it because it's the only camera I could find that could handle reading a license plate at 30 ft. I never activated the SIM features.

[–] aramova 3 points 5 days ago

And their camera's processing and memory cards are all mounted on the windshield for some stupid reason.

Having a small discreet 4 or 6 channel camera that writes to an SSD hidden inside the car and has a 4g radio attachment, or even connects to a hotspot would be massive.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This would be much more expensive. It would also create a weak point. Cops tell cell phone carriers to kill that SIM and you’ll never notice. If it goes through your phone the cost is lower and you’ll notice a service interruption.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey, I planned that out over a period of about thirty seconds. My plan is solid!

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’ve been kicking this idea around for months. I just haven’t been able to solve all the problems with it. The biggest among them is small wide angle low light cameras with decent frame rate and resolution are NOT cheap. If I can solve that problem th rest would actually be pretty simple.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're sacrificing light for the wide angle. Increase the sensitivity to fix that and you're introducing noise. Extend the exposure time for each frame to reduce noise and you get motion blur. I know, it sucks. You can't win. Best of luck, my friend.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly. I can get around some of this to some extent by sacrificing resolution for frame rate and just allowing distorting the image of it just letting showing things as they happen and that could address light sensitivity but that means sacrificing detail which could be important too. I dunno. I haven’t been able to solve this cheaply. There’s definitely off the shelf solutions to this but nothing at all affordable.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The cell phone presents issues when used by itself. It can’t catch what actually happened and led to an event, so cops can lie. It only catches one angle, so it cant see everything. It requires you to directly handle it so it can be wrestled away and destroyed.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I mean I have a blackvue dual cam system setup going to a phone which is in a holder to act as driver view, all backed up to cloud.