Outside the courthouse, Ms. Taccetta's brother, Daniel Taccetta, said he was thankful that Mr. Laffer had agreed to plead guilty so that family members would not have to endure the excruciating details of a trial, which may have included surveillance camera video of the shootings.
Therefore, the bare glass with high reflection would show the image of the photo-shooting smartphone camera.
And officials in Fresno and Sacramento recently released footage from body or patrol car cameras that captured controversial shootings by police.
(About the only time we see Vaimo at rest is in a silent, strained scene after the shootings, when the camera pans around the shellshocked family, beginning and ending on Ms. Tarsala's anguished face).
They also say police videos of shootings – taken from cameras on lapels or helmets – were often incomplete or absent.
"The lady said, 'Are those gunshots?' " Detectives were examining videotape taken of the shootings from surveillance cameras in the diner, a law enforcement source said.
Even in continuous-shooting mode the camera takes pictures roughly every three seconds.
They watched a videotape of the shootings, recorded by a camera at an American base nearby.
Most effective of all is an extended shot of a child dancing in front of a row of riot police, who raise their hands in response to his moves before the camera cuts to graffiti reading "STOP SHOOTING US".
As such, the camera packs in all sorts of shooting-assist modes for beginners, including Auto, Scene, Advance Photo and Art Filter, the latter of which is sort of the interchangeable-lens camera version of the Instagram filter.
In many recent cases of police shootings, the police body cameras have either malfunctioned or turned off or the content has gone missing.
