Posted on 08/26/2014 11:39:11 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
What's thought to be an audio recording of the shooting death of Michael Brown has reportedly surfaced. According to CNN, an unidentified man, who has since been interviewed by the FBI, is said to have managed to record the incident in which Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson earlier this month, setting off a national firestorm.
The most notable tidbit from the short recording (and what will become subject to the most immediately scrutiny and parsing) is the existence of two distinct volleys of gunfire from Officer Darren Wilson's weapon. From CNN:
class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">In the recording, a quick series of shots can be heard, followed by a pause and then another quick succession of shots.
Forensic audio expert Paul Ginsberg analyzed the recording and said he detected at least 10 gunshots -- a cluster of six, followed by four.
The man who recorded the shooting was talking to someone on video chat when the sounds of gunfire erupted in the background. The Daily Mail added:
Lopa Blumenthal, the attorney for the unidentified man who recorded the alleged gunfire nearby said that she believed the audio shows, if it is authentic, that Officer Wilson had a clear 'point of contemplation' while pulling the trigger and aiming at Brown."
Also of some serious importance, should the tape's authenticity be confirmed, is the fact that ten (or, by some counts, eleven) shots were fired at Brown by Wilson.
Here is the segment as it aired on CNN with the audio recording.
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Not echoes. There are two single shots, without any repeat like other shots could be construed as. 1, pause, 5-6 rapid, long pause, 1, pause, 3 rapid. Long pause could be construed as Brown pausing then resuming the threatening approach.
We don’t have the whole recording yet, just the core string of 10+ rounds, so no word on whether there was a muffled bang suitably earlier.
“Officer Wilson regains his weapon and fires 6 rounds at the fleeing Brown, missing him. Those shots being absolutely justified; fleeing, dangerous felon. Brown then turns and charges the officer...the final 4 shots. That’s just one scenario.”
...except that there are at least 6 holes in Brown, all in his front. The “turned around during the pause” theory fails.
If the black can jump to conclusions, so can the white.
Some conclusions seem more likely than others as well.
A further conclusion is that Brown’s accomplice was full of sh!t...surprisingly.
“Or simply a manufactured recording to muddy the waters.”
Except at one extreme it does absolutely nothing for their case (no point in manufacturing pointedly unrelated evidence), and at the other extreme cements the defense (6 shots (4 in arm, 2 misses), pause, Brown _still_ a threat, 4 shots (2 in head, 2 misses) - a very and increasingly plausible scenario).
People faking evidence do not go to lengths to create evidence which proves, or even vaguely suggests, absolutely nothing toward the case as they want it seen. Investigators would have at least screened this to determine probability that one end of the call was within earshot & time of the shooting.
We’re getting into Occam’s Razor territory here: yeah, there are alternate explanations, but the simplest and most sensible one is that it is, in fact, a recording of the shooting. Any other explanation gets really complicated or pointless real fast.
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http://youtu.be/ldGjixoV4xs
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Some of the arm wounds and a chest wound may have been caused by a single bullet. No one knows.
Was there the sound of a round being discharged in the police car?
I am thinking he was punched in the face so hard, he had trouble seeing, maybe his eye was swollen, vision blurry and he needed time to refocus...just a thought..
I wouldn't treat it as a suspected recording of the shooting, unless a witness had come forward prior to it's release describing the sequence of shots and the pauses between clusters of shots. Have there been any news accounts of witnesses describing the shots and pauses just as they occur in the recording? I don't think so. Even then, someone could easily manufacture a matching audio recording. The only relevant description is the recollection of the cop. Does he agree with the sequence of shots in the audio recording?
Or any other "aspiring rap star".
Those self-important DJs have all kinds of sophistic digital recording gear to make their own splices, loops and samples.
if some of the news media would just use google before they spew their ignorant comments they would better understand shootings and use of force..but no, they would rather be willfully ignorant -plausible deniability.
id like to hear the gunshots dubbed over bodyguard browns rap song..
if he was in internet chat there might be a recording on server? I don’t know
His "chat session" should be logged online and traceable.
My question is where does he live? Another shooting occurred recently in St. Louis (or nearby) with two officers firing on a man (who'd robbed a convenience store of 2 cans of drink) and was holding a knife he refused to drop (suicide by cop).
Wikimedia would claim that footage is public domain since the sea turtle owns the copyright, not the camera owner...
How many shots are we talking then?
1 (in the vehicle) then 6 then 4 more? 11? Or 12 by some audio review accounts?
And none of the shots that hit him were in the back, so at least two before the "gap" were while Michael was facing the officer in addition to some after the gap.
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