The Metropolitan Police Department has been accused of gamesmanship after requesting to delay the release of the Las Vegas shooting video footage.

District Judge Stefany Miley recently expressed frustration with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, accusing them of gamesmanship after trying to further delay the release of the Las Vegas shooting video footage.

“I’m very frustrated because I think that gamesmanship is going on here,” District Judge Stefany Miley said during the ruling, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It’s now months since the shooting occurred, and it’s still the same: delay, delay, delay. If one technique doesn’t work, then you switch to another one. That’s very concerning for the court.”

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has allegedly fought the release of the Las Vegas shooting video footage. The police department also allegedly fought the unsealing of search warrants related to the shooting. State and federal judges ultimately decided that the warrants should be unsealed.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department allegedly claimed that certain materials in the Las Vegas shooting video footage contain confidential information. However, the court allegedly rejected that reasoning.

“Although the court does agree with Metro in that there are privileges that may protect the disclosure of certain documents, the question has always been, for this court: Which documents are subject to protections under the law? And that’s never been provided to this court,” Judge Miley said, according to the Review-Journal.

In March, District Judge Richard Scotti ruled that the department needed to immediately hand over recordings to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other media organizations which had sued for their release. Judge Scotti said the records could be made public gradually and gave the police department six months to release the Las Vegas shooting video footage.

In court briefs opposing Judge Scotti’s ruling, a lawyer for the police department argued that the decision was “clearly erroneous because the government’s interest in non-disclosure significantly outweighs any interest the public has in access.”

The material in question contains nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911. The media organizations suing the Las Vegas Metropolitan claim that the Las Vegas shooting video footage should be released to the public.

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