Body cam footage from Graham march, made public

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A judge declined Wednesday to force the Alamance County Sheriff’s Department and the Graham Police Department to turn over body camera footage from an October march that he previously ordered be produced to a coalition of news media organizations.

Superior Court Judge Andrew Hanford said the matter is now under the jurisdiction of the appellate court.

“There’s one order,” Hanford said. “It’s been appealed. Let’s see what the Court of Appeals has to say about what happened.”

Despite the legal setback, the public will see some of the bodycam footage from the October 31, 2020, “I am Change: March to the polls” event in Graham because an individual charged in the incident has released footage obtained in her case to Carolina Public Press and other news agencies.

These videos show officers deploying pepper spray on a Black-led group of marchers that includes children, the elderly and people with disabilities.

Graham police arrested Kelly Skahan, a lawyer who volunteered as an election observer for the Democratic Party, on since-dropped misdemeanor charges when law enforcement attempted to clear downtown Graham.

Skahan, based in Washington state, received the body camera footage from the Alamance County district attorney’s office as part of her successful legal defense.

Skahan released the videos to Carolina Public Press and other news media outlets because the prosecutorial process has been unusually opaque, she said. Several protesters are still facing criminal proceedings and their lives are being interrupted, she said.

“I think it was important for the public to see what was on the body camera videos that the county and the city have had the whole time,” she said. “And what the evidence is that’s supporting so many of these prosecutions.”