UPDATE: Camera Footage Related to 4/14/16 Graffiti Arrest
In the interest of transparency and public understanding of this incident, UWPD is releasing body camera video and external surveillance video associated with the 4/14/16 arrest of Denzel McDonald. Four videos are being released.
Per open records laws, personal information and faces of students within the classroom have been redacted/blurred.
4/16/16 UPDATE: Three additional videos have been released and are posted below. There are now seven total videos.
Video #1
This video is approximately 14 minutes long. It shows the moment the officer enters the classroom, when the body camera is activated and turned on. The footage ends as Mr. McDonald is being handcuffed. Mr. McDonald’s backpack bumps into the officer and into the camera, and the camera is inadvertently turned off.
Video #2
This video is approximately 10 minutes long. This an overhead view of Library Mall, which shows the officers, Mr. McDonald, and the professor leaving the Humanities Building through the time Mr. McDonald is walked to the squad car. The area where the officers and Mr. McDonald are has been highlighted.
Video #3
This video is approximately 14 minutes long. It starts when the body camera is activated, one minute and 48 seconds after the officer realized his body camera was bumped and inadvertently turned off. The officer turns off the camera when he enters his squad.
Video #4
This video is approximately four minutes long. The officer turned the camera back on when he left the squad to talk to another person at the scene.
Video #5
This video is approximately 27 minutes long. This is an overhead view of the officers’ squad car on East Campus Mall, from the Chazen Museum.
Video #6
This video is approximately 23 minutes long. This is body camera footage of when Mr. McDonald was booked into the Dane County Jail.
Video #7
This video is approximately four minutes long. This is body camera footage of when Mr. McDonald visited the UWPD lobby to retrieve his personal belongings.