The four involved officers who fired their duty weapons were all wearing body worn cameras.
Captain Patrick O’Neill was not as he generally doesn’t wear one in his assignment as a field operations commander, and he responded straight to the scene from his residence.
One officer’s camera ran and recorded the entire incident (Endsley). One officer’s camera’s battery “died” around 2 hours into the incident (Omey).
Another officer’s camera had a dead battery/malfunction from the beginning and recorded nothing (Wilson).
The remaining camera was powered on but kept getting bumped by the officer’s weapon/equipment due to its position on his body causing it to record and then stop recording (Bishop).
This camera however, since it was powered up, still collected video that investigators were able to retrieve. This type of video is called a “Recording-After-The Fact” and contains no audio.
The Eureka Police Department was an early adopter and leader of body worn cameras in Humboldt County. We have had our current batch of body worn cameras for almost 4 years and they are past their service life, so we are seeing battery issues with almost all of the ones we have that are still functioning.
EPD placed an order for 42 new body cameras the first week of June, at a cost in excess of $80,000. Once they arrive, we will have top of the line cameras and a new, upgraded digital storage system.
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