If the police mistreated April, it would be on the footage.
On that note, supplemental to all the video clips coming in that a judge may find tough to slog through, it may be worth throwing into the renewed request and later civil action a reminder that
Nick's own attorney has timestamped and uploaded into the
Minnesota Digital Exhibit System (MNDES) the bodycam footage rumored to depict police abuses violating April's constitutional rights, effectively already presenting it as evidence in court:
[L]
In the same motion, the rumored police abuses at the above-noted timestamps were summarized as follows:
[L]
It is clear that the above-timestamped footage was not merely referred to offhand, and was in fact fully uploaded to
MNDES as exhibits for presentation as evidence in court to support a contested motion, because the transcript from hearing of that motion specifically referred to those video files already being fully viewable in
MNDES by that time:
[L]
These particular rumors of police abuses, unlike others, may also have a secondary argument in favor of their release, because even supposing for the sake of argument that the "dispel widespread rumor" ground for release under
Minn. Stat. 13.82, subd. 15 were to ever be rejected by the wrong judge in the wrong mood,
in the alternative at least the Barneswalker's affirmatively uploading the above-noted exhibits in MNDES and citing to them in support of a contested motion in court without any corresponding motion to seal might implicate part of
Minn. Stat. 13.82, subd. 7 as an independent ground for release, since it doesn't
explicitly limit itself to
only trial exhibits:
[L]
All these widespread rumors of the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office callously trampling on innocent citizens' Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights are truly terrifying and should be dispelled by these
already-filed court exhibits that the Barneswalker found so important, lest the public's faith in the integrity of our criminal justice system be eroded even further.
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