I had been trying to figure a way to get this video into a usable format after all this time. Nothing worked, so I just tried videotaping off of my television. The dashboard video comes on a CD which plays only on a computer since it requires a proprietary application. Not the best and not the whole clip, but I’m working on that.
This is after I was stopped and ordered from my truck at gunpoint. I keep responding with, “Am I under arrest?”, to which they never reply.
This is a clip from dashboard video of a traffic stop by Fairview Heights, Il. police on Feb. 17, 2009 where I was ordered to my knees at gunpoint and then beaten and Tasered by two police. When asked why I was stopped each cop had a different response: “You were weaving,” and “You got a warrant.”
They did not even know who I was as you can hear them asking after I had been beaten and Tasered.
I received 5 charges for the entire event, all of which were dismissed. I now am involved in a civil suit and pressing criminal charges against the cops.
The first cop tries to put me on the ground without warning instead of cuffing me while kneeling, and the second cop comes into frame and does a knee-drop on my head and starts Tasering me. You can hear the clack, clack, clack.. of the Taser while they are kicking and punching me telling me to put my hands behind my back. At this point I am fighting for my life. The Taser was used as a “dry stun” where the cartridge is removed from the gun and placed against the skin. He chose to place it on the back of my neck at the base of my skull.
You can also hear them asking me for ID after the fact. I suffered multiple cuts, abrasions, broken glasses, chipped tooth, and broken nose.
The details of the event can be found here http://markmccoy.com/excessiveforce.html
You may want to try playing it on your computer and using a video screen capture tool. It will capture the video, and any audio, of whatever is happening on your screen. You should be able to play the video at full screen, or do the screen cap and then crop the video down to the player size in a video editing program.
Convoluted process, but it should work.
Sick. Good luck in your lawsuit.
I have a dashboard cam video and it is playable with VLC player and you can always re-encode it to another format, using a different program.
Xaq Fixx/Xarous,
I tried that, but the video came out really low. I’ve tried 3 of them and looking for another. The video is on a computer disk with a proprietary player from L3 Communications. The “About” on the player is “AVD Viewer Version 6.0.1.16″. The application is QBXViewer.
I’ve looked for conversion formats, but I will have to either do a screener off the television or find a screen capture that doesn’t corrupt the audio.
Just a thought. You could always just convert the CD into an .iso file and upload it. Archive.org will host just about any file format for free. This would allow everyone to work on it — chances are someone will come up with a way to decode a high quality copy of the vide.
So bogus. What are police even for? From this video, I’d say their only purpose is to create public danger. Freaking out and screaming, using violence and conducting unnecessary business in the middle of a road. Disgusting.
It says the video is private.
Derek,
Try it again. I had taken them off line to try to clean them up. They are available again.