The Rochester Police Department recently released footage taken form the body camera of Officer Dakota Vanbrederode. That footage is embedded in the video below and begins at 13:31. In the bottom right hand corner you can see a unique identifier ending in DV2585. The RPD has two ways of formatting the unique identifiers in body camera videos released to the public. The first is with a random number in which case it is useless for the public when it comes to identifying the officer wearing it. The second is with the officer's initials and badge number following the _ character. In Vanbrederode's case the second unique identifier was used and we were able to match the badge number and initials with publicly available information about Vanbrederode. Open Oversight hosts an extensive database of RPD officers. When we searched for badge number 2585 we found a single record for an officer named Dakota J. Vanbrederode (https://ift.tt/3erOMlD). That name was also found on the RPD Open Data Portal website where it is the only name with the initials DV (https://ift.tt/38tIpdU). We are also certain that Vanbrederode was on the scene because as the screenshot taken from another officer's camera at 57:40 clearly shows the name D. J. Vanbrederode on an officer's uniform at the scene. From that we are certain that the video in question was taken from the body camera of Dakota Vanbrederode. In this next section we will critique Vanbrederode's conduct once we are finished identifying as many other officers as we can. So far we can tell you that he was not the officer that body slammed the mother because she was already on the ground when he arrived at the scene. He was however there when she was pepper sprayed by another officer and can be heard at about 38:50 complaining to her about being pepper sprayed as well after taking her to jail. #dakotavanbrederode #assault #pepperspray
source https://copblaster.com/blast/34454/rpd-officer-dakota-vanbrederode-idd-at-scene-of-body-slammed-mom
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