Anton Black Lawyers Allege Police Body Cam Footage Was Altered
Attorneys for the family of Anton Black, the 19-year-old African American from Caroline County, who died in police custody last year, believe law enforcement officers altered the police body camera footage taken during Black’s arrest.
In early May, Rene C. Swafford, an attorney on the Black legal team, made statements before Ridgely Town commissioners alleging its police chief had time to make the alterations two days before he and another police chief showed a copy of the footage to the president of the NAACP Caroline County branch on Sept. 17.
“It is our opinion that Chief Gary Manos had a full two days to manipulate the data on that body-worn camera footage,” Swafford said at the May 6 public meeting. “It is our opinion, the legal team’s, as well as the family’s opinion, that the body-worn camera footage was altered with specific intent to mislead the family and violate the public trust in this community.”
A top Eastern Shore prosecutor denies the lawyers’ allegations.
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