Sure, I’ll say that reconstructing a search on video is “less harmful” than intentionally framing an innocent person. What’s controversial about that?
Yes, they’re both wrong, but one has the intent of (poorly, sloppily, perhaps even criminally) fixing a procedural error and one has the intent of framing someone for a crime they didn’t commit. How is that distinction unimportant?
This came up because Cory wrote that the cop “staged his bodycam footage to frame his suspect.” That’s not quite true. He staged his bodycam footage to recreate finding the evidence. Still wrong, still bad, but not a frame.
