A camera mounted on a light pole took video of police beating Tyre Nichols. What to know about 'SkyCop.'

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SkyCop cameras are intended to detect crime using gunshot identification technology and license plate recognition, according to the company's website. The company's website says the cameras also deter crime just by being in plain sight.

The company's website says the cameras also deter crime just by being in plain sight.

In video footage from Jan. 7, the camera points down on an empty residential street, then begins to slowly turn, stopping to film police officers bending over Nichols, who is curled up on the pavement.The Memphis police department has been using SkyCop cameras since 2007,Later, the department began using SkyCop cameras as part of its"Blue Crush" crime reduction initiative to surveil"targeted crime hot spots," according to a 2017 news release on SkyCop's website.

 

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