The Denver Post: A protester who says he was wrongfully arrested at a No Kings march last year is pointing to the Denver Police Department’s own drone footage as evidence of the alleged misconduct in a newly filed lawsuit, offering an early example of police drone footage being used as an oversight tool amid the agency’s increasing embrace of the technology.

Drone video entering into lawsuits and other accountability processes is fairly new, experts told The Denver Post. That use pushes drone video into the same ranks as footage from body-worn cameras and the city’s High Activity Location Observation, or HALO, cameras, which have been used both for surveillance and police oversight for years.

“It’s not that police misconduct has become more common in the last 10 or 20 years; it’s that we now have documentation of it,” said Adam Frank, a civil rights attorney. “Now every lawsuit, at this point, it is like, ‘OK, what is on the body-worn camera?’ This isn’t ‘he said, she said.’ This is, ‘Everyone did what they did.’ ”

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