Its a fucking Christmas miracle. Someone was actually able to get body cam footage from Virginia Police. Some pencil pusher in Henrico County is literally burning in the fires of mount doom right now, screaming about "the precious".
Is Virginia particularly hesitant about releasing bodycam footage to strangers from the public?
NOTE: different states have different policies regarding public records
I know for a fact that New Mexico freely gives them out, no questions asked. New Jersey also does the same. As well as Florida. Those three states seem to have the most bodycam videos on YouTube.
I've literally never seen any from New York (aside from one in upstate NY; definitely none in NYC). I can't recall any from Virginia off the top of my head, but I haven't specifically tried to locate any Virginia bodycam vids. I definitely have looked for NYC bodycam vids, however, and never found any. I don't think I've seen any from Long Island either.
Off the top of my head, I've seen quite a few in Washington state, though not as many as New Mexico, New Jersey, and Florida. I also recall a couple vids from Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin.
edit: I should mention that if Isabella Loretta Janke ever gets arrested for those arrest warrants in New Mexico for not paying off those speeding tickets, we should easily be able to obtain bodycam footage because of how willing New Mexico is to release them.