Former APD Officer Jeremy Dear Interview: Camera Was Unplugged, Not An Internal Error

Albuquerque, NM- The Albuquerque Journal obtained audio of the interview conducted with former APD Officer Jeremy Dear two days after he fatally shot Mary Hawkes last April. The audio reveals that Dear said he realized that his lapel camera was unplugged immediately after he fired shots at Hawkes.

Dear has claimed body camera errors in the past. In January 2013, Dear was accused of hitting a 22-year-old suspect "several times in his facial area with a closed fist." Dear's camera was not on at the time, and his partner's camera had captured the beginning of the fight and its aftermath. In February 2013, a man filed a complaint accusing Dear of using excessive force during a traffic stop. The man alleged that Dear pulled him out of his vehicle and kicked him in the genitals. Dear denied the accusations and claimed that the battery on his body camera died after he pulled the man over.

Dear had also been accused of giving conflicting information in a wrongful death suit stemming from an APD-involved shooting in 2011. APD officer Sean Wallace had shot and killed Alan Gomez, a suspect in a hostage situation.

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Sounds a little too convenient for me, and always at the most "unfortunate" time .....don't you think?

yea its funny that people think that putting cameras on cops will do anything at all, they will just shut them off before murdering someone. even when they shoot unarmed people on camera they still get away with it. kind of like the homeless man who was sleeping in the desert till a group of cops disturbed him. they then proceeded to shoot him multiple times with an assault rifle, multiple bean bags from a shotgun, let a police dog attack him while hes already dead. all on camera, because he was holding a pocket knife? a group of cops against one homeless man with a pocket knife, they shoot him with real bullets first, before firing bean bags at him and letting a police dog attack his lifeless body. are you telling me that 4-6 cops cant subdue a homeless man with a pocket knife? or how about the mentally ill guy who was beaten to death by cops on camera, couple of cops start beating this man, backup arrives only to join in on the beating. this lasted for I believe 13 minutes while you can repeatedly hear this guy screaming for his dad, all on camera. and even when charges are brought against the cops theyre never murder charges, usually a man slaughter charge where they get 8 months to a year in jail, if they even get that. i'll bet 90% of cops don't even know the laws that they are supposed to be enforcing, which is scary. but considering anyone off the street can become a cop as long as they don't have too bad of a criminal record, what do you expect. IMO the qualifications to become a police officer should be raised significantly so we don't just have thugs running around with badges. I know plenty of people who have done bad things in their life but were fortunate enough to not get caught, these same people can enroll in a police academy or w/e you do to become a cop and be the very people enforcing the laws of which they know nothing about.

I heard about that and many others now ... feels like they are trying to shame you because they are our protectors ... so your damned if u do and damned if u don't... what a uproar this has been ... because they feel they are like a family and they stand by the police word and if u don't they shame u ... into thinking it someone elses foult but not thiers ...like their are no dirty cops ...