Wichita Falls, Texas actually piped their treated sewage outflow directly into their treatment plants for a short while because if a drought. Usually it gets dumped in a river after treatment but they were running out of water.
The article confirms what you claimed. The pilot decided to land to collect antlers. All three people on the helicopter were charged with tresspassing, the NG added a standing order of "don't do that", and the antlers are likely going back to the landowners.
Body cams are important but have limits. If the officer doesn't need to write a detailed report how will things that happen outside their FOV be documented? Audio will only give so much of the story.
My parents have a place to shoot in their yard. It's a stack of old railroad ties four deep, two wide and ten tall with dirt piled up around the back. There is an empty field for over a mile behind that. I can't imagine using it if anyone was any closer.
Underfunding government services so they break and then using that brokenness as a reason to cut funding further has been the Republican MO for decades.
If I had to choose being in the same room as Trump or a plastic plant, I'd choose the fake plant 110% of the time. At least it wont be consuming any of the limited oxygen in the room.
Maybe the lawyer isn't lying but it doesn't matter why the data was collected. Once it is collected it can be used for anything.