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Albuquerque's police chief thinks cops have a 5th Amendment right to leave their body cameras off

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Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina ran a red light and broadsided a car, severely injuring the driver.

Internal Affairs report: Medina ran the light to escape an altercation between two homeless men that had escalated into gunfire.

The crash was "non-preventable," but the board's decision to review the crash and its exoneration of Medina are hard to fathom, Lt. James Ortiz says.

Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate" Medina received two official reprimands for the camera violation and the reckless driving that injured Perchert .

In similar situations, other Albuquerque police officers have been fired.