{"id":64861,"date":"2026-09-22T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64861"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:31:10","slug":"va-body-cam-video-of-valid-arrest-would-be-suppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64861","title":{"rendered":"VA: Body cam video of valid arrest would not be suppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant doesn\u2019t get to suppress the body cam of her detention where the officer told her to stand in one place and then she later assaulted the officer. It was not a Fourth Amendment violation. Ross v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 502 (Sep. 22, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018The possibility that an officer ultimately may prove to be mistaken or that there may be an innocent explanation for the facts giving rise to the officer&#8217;s suspicion does not negate, in and of itself, the officer&#8217;s reasonable, articulable suspicion.\u2019\u201d Fults v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 509 (Sep. 22, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s detention for safety reasons turned into a frisk for weapons based on reasonable suspicion from his actions and the time of day and it being a high crime area. Tyler v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 499 (Sep. 22, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant doesn\u2019t get to suppress the body cam of her detention where the officer told her to stand in one place and then she later assaulted the officer. It was not a Fourth Amendment violation. Ross v. Commonwealth, 2026 Va. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,89,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-body-cameras","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64864,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64861\/revisions\/64864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}