Backfire: Family Demands Answers in Police Shooting, Gets Them in Bodycam Footage
http://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/05/11/backfire-bodycams-continue-to-prove-to-be-valuable-assets-for-police-officers-n2428094
As our own Doug Powers reported last week, the Black Lives Matter movement demanded that police wear bodycams so that their misdeeds would be captured on video. As Libs of TikTok put it, "This might be the greatest backfire in history." Now, some on the Left are arguing to get rid of police bodycams, saying that "they have been a propaganda tool.” POLITICO reported in February that "Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool." We've done several posts about how "community leaders" have been caught on bodycams rushing the police with weapons brandished.
In late April, CBS News reported that the family of 27-year-old Desaver Hollis, of Plymouth, Minnesota, was seeking answers after he was shot and killed by police. On Monday, the family got their wish, as police released the bodycam footage of Hollis fleeing from the police and exchanging gunshots. (Note: End Wokeness had the video, but for some reason, X wouldn't allow us to embed it.)
Grant Godwin - The Typical Liberal (@the_typical_lib) ~ The leftist Narrative: "young scholar Desaver Hollis shot and kiIIed by police and the family demands answers!"
Here’s what the bodycam footage shows: http://t.co/Koiu92BZkJ
Savannah Insights (@BasedSavannah) ~ Family demands answers ... answer - he tried to kill the police.
Adam Francisco (@adamfrancisco_) ~ Resolution improved. Absolutely damning moment caught on body cam for the family.
MoviesnMayhem (@elmstreetglove) ~ Can’t wait to see the smiling graduation pic!
MAZE (@mazemoore) ~ Bodycam is the worst thing to ever happen to them.
Ackley Kid (@Zeronetgain) ~ The answer is - your relative was a gun wielding thug who died while attempting to kill a police officer.
Enjoy it. (@dealwithitsmith) ~ Here is the answer ... Desaver was an idiot who played a deadly game and lost. Now, fuck off.
Derg Burg 🍔 & Yeen Cuisine 🍕 (@RuggedTheDragon) ~ I saw the entire video on YouTube. Once the officer was shot, the other cop absolutely mag dumped the criminal.
This idiot was armed with a pistol he just used to shoot a fellow officer ... I would have emptied my magazine into him, too.
Mike (@Mike78642) ~ Family wants answers, well here ya go ... he was a thug and got shot while he was doing thuggish things. Now, tell us why he was a thug who took a shot at the police?
Uh, that would be because his family did NOT raise him right. So, to the family of Desaver Hollis ... you want answers for why he's dead? Go look in the mirror.
Jeff Christian (@cjchristian00) ~ Answers? Just show them the video, and then, lead them out. Thank you and have a great day.
FOX 9 News reports that after the bodycam video was released, the Hollis family held a news conference where "attorneys with the family raised questions about the editing of the video and whether it was necessary for officers to fire 20 shots during the encounter."
"Redacted and heavily edited," says the family's attorney.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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