YouTube video purportedly captures witness backing police version (Exremely Graphic Video)

FoxNews.com ^ | August 18, 2014 | FoxNews.Com

[Biggirl]

A purported conversation captured on a YouTube video apparently shot in the immediate aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown has a possible witness saying the unarmed 18-year-old charged at the officer who fired the shots that have led to more than a week of sometimes violent demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

[Dick Bachert]

One bad apple on ANY police force is one bad apple too many.
COP CAMS would prevent many or ALL of these sorts of tragedies. (To be effective, these devices MUST be “ON” during the entire shift and any officer whose device fails to capture the event under investigation or attempts to defeat the device should be summarily dismissed.)
IF THE OFFICER IN THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING HAD WORN A COP CAM, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THIS INCIDENT WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN SETTLED and Ferguson, MO wouldn’t be burning every night and Al Sharpton and the other racist agitators would have nothing to do.
And let’s all remember that even cops and elected officials have families, any one of which could become the victim of the senseless act of some rogue cop who’s having a bad day and wants to pass it on.

[RoosterRedux]

I wonder how or even if this video can be introduced into evidence.

[Fido969]

Why aren't the intrepid “investigative journalists” handing this guy his lunch?

[Parley Baer]

“I wonder how or even if this video can be introduced into evidence.”

Probably not. But in the trial of public opinion that is going on it counts.

[RoosterRedux]

I know defense counsel will try to introduce the video only if to ask an expert witness to assess its authenticity. It is powerful because the person speaking is not aware he is being recorded and is providing an eyewitness account with the dead body lying in the background.

If a video expert can prove the tape has not been tampered with, it might be the single most important piece of corroborating evidence available.

You can be certain that no one in that community is going to tell the truth on the witness stand so the entire trial may hang on this one little snippet.

[william clark]

Yes.

[RoosterRedux]

Just to get it into evidence here at FR, here is the name of the person who uploaded the video in question to youtube: julius kwabena nkromah john

[RoosterRedux]

Here’s the name of another uploader of the video to youtube...BlackCanseco.

[a fool in paradise]

Rush made the excellent point today that even though the cop involved didn’t know of the robbery the “Gentle Giant” did know he had just committed a crime and therefore would be likely to act suspiciously when confronted by the police thinking that the cop did know and was going to arrest him. Food for thought there

Shades of Lee Harvey Oswald's behavior after shooting Officer Tippit.