The body camera and blue light camera footage from a controversial Rochester Police Department arrest have been released.

The viral video of the arrest has been viewed nearly 400,000 times – an RPD officer tackling Letorya Parker from behind, just inches from her screaming child. Both Parker and the bystander who captured the cell phone footage were arrested.

“We’ve never released blue light video like that before,” said Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli. “But because of the concern, we worked with DA’s office. And there’s a lot of focus because of the body camera program, but most of the relevant video will be from the blue light camera.”

Ciminelli saying that these newly released videos will shed some light on the circumstances surrounding the arrest, including allegations by police that Parker struck the officer in the face as he was arresting her.

“I’ve looked at the video multiple times, so you’ll be able to see for yourself,” he said. “But it’s a lot of the time leading up and some of the time after the events occurred.”

You can see that the blue light video is redacted and pixelated to the point where it is impossible to tell what is occurring between the officer and Letorya Parker.

Body camera video released doesn’t shed much light either, since the arrest captured on body camera is of another person entirely.

The body camera videos do not show Parker’s controversial arrest. Instead, they show the arrest of 17-year-old Mya Linn Figueroa, which occurred just minutes after.

That’s Figueroa’s mother screaming as her daughter is arrested. However, the body camera cuts out at that moment – an issue RPD union president Mike Mazzeo says is common.

Chief Ciminelli, however, insists the body camera program is working.

“This is the only time it happened,” he said.” We think there was contact between the person and the officer.”

Working body cameras or not – the redacted video makes it impossible to see what happened either way.

We reached out to ask why the video was edited the way it was. We know some of the officers involved have received death threats, according to police.

However, we did not hear back from police about why crucial moments of the video were redacted.

Watch the full videos on Youtube:

Body cam footage – 1

Body cam footage – 2

Body cam footage – 3

Body cam footage – 4

Blue light cam footage