The first authorized body-worn camera footage to be officially shared in Canada was made public by Manitoba Mounties at the end of November.

The video, at just under one minute, is an edited compilation of footage taken from RCMP officers’ body cameras over the past year, as devices rolled out across the country.

The week before the release of the video compilation, body-camera video captured a fatal shooting by an RCMP officer at Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba. “We want to see it,” said a close friend of the deceased.

Body-camera footage of the shooting has been turned over to the Independent Investigation Unit, Manitoba’s police watchdog agency. According to a Manitoba RCMP spokesperson, the footage “is now restricted to only a few investigators within the RCMP, and videos are not shared.”

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