Body camera program brings unease for Mass. police, and, perhaps, a new age of accountability
Seconds after firing 26 bullets into a Boston man who had allegedly waved a fake gun, the police officers and a state trooper scanned the scene and took stock of the frantic moment.
“Are you all right — did you shoot?” asked the trooper, while offering an officer a handshake. “Did you shoot too?” he asked another.
They breathed heavily and started to congregate as Juston Root lay dead or dying a few feet away, in a mulched median strip of a parking lot in Newton. And then, just as quickly, attention turned to something else. Several had body cameras clipped on to their vests — and running.
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