Is it a Metro bus? It’s quite possible. But you will likely need a subpoena from a lawyer.

About 10 years ago, a metro cop beat up my husband and arrested him and his buddy, then charged them with a federal offense for beating up a cop. The whole thing happened at a metro train station.

After the event, I talked to the MPDC police and they stood by the Metro cop’s testimony. They were absolutely useless.

So next, I called up Metro and got the run around quite a bit, but eventually we got a hold of the phone number to a Metro employee that maintains all Metro camera footage. He was a very agreeable, nice guy. He told us he would collect the footage in advance for us, but he can’t give it to us without a subpoena and paid some kind of fee to metro. So, we got a lawyer, got the subpoena, paid the fee, got the footage and showed up in court with it.

Before we went before the judge, the metro cop was allowed to see the pretty damning footage, and the guy decided to dropped all charges. The video showed that it was actually the cop that was beating up my husband, not the other way around. Our lawyer said we had a really good case against the cop if we wanted to sue, but sadly my husband decided to not pursue it further. He was pretty scarred by the whole thing and just wanted to put it behind him.

Anyways, it was 10 years ago, so I don’t know if the process has changed or if it’s different for WMATA buses. But hopefully this will help.