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Michael Brown shooting: Is this new video a 'game changer'?
CNN ^ | 09/13/2014 | By Catherine E. Shoichet and Randi Kaye

Posted on 09/13/2014 11:27:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It's a view of the Michael Brown shooting we hadn't seen before, but could it be enough to shape the way a grand jury handles the controversial case?

An exclusive video first broadcast Wednesday on CNN shows two construction workers' reactions just after a police officer shot the unarmed African-American 18-year-old last month in Ferguson, Missouri. The contractors shown in the short video clip told CNN they saw Brown with his hands up as Officer Darren Wilson pursued him and opened fire.

Several legal analysts describe the video as a "game changer." Others said it might not make much of a dent in the case.

Here are three reasons legal analysts told CNN the video could be important:

1. The witnesses it depicts are white and don't live in Ferguson.

The race of the witnesses shouldn't matter, but it could for the grand jury that's investigating the case, said Mark Geragos, a CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney.

There are nine whites and three African-Americans on the 12-member panel tasked with deciding whether Wilson, who is white, should be charged.

"You now have some witnesses who the majority of this grand jury are going to better relate to. I hate to say it, but that's the reality of it, and that's why it's a game changer to me," Geragos said.

2. It shows their reactions shortly after the shooting.

Lots of people have come forward with their accounts of what happened the day Wilson shot Brown. But it's significant to have the immediate reactions of two witnesses on tape, said CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; ferguson; memebuilding; michaelbrown; missouri; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: gusopol3
Lots of controversy about the authenticity, too.

Pretty simple to authenticate. The video chat service has the time to the second, and the only other piece of relevant information is the guy's location at the time.

They will try to introduce confusion over the significance of the inter-shot timing. However, I predict there will be zero controversy over the recording's authenticity.

41 posted on 09/13/2014 1:15:59 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes, it will be a game changer until the next game changer that CNN trots out in a few days. Maybe they'll discover those weren't Swisher Sweets Martin nicked - they were Gurkha Empire 6s, casting doubt on The Fuzz's credibility.

They will never, ever let this go, folks.

42 posted on 09/13/2014 1:18:59 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind
Game Changer under Cross Examination


43 posted on 09/13/2014 1:40:22 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Crump is rehearsing his witnesses.


44 posted on 09/13/2014 1:41:13 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

CNN, the agitprop specialists? It must be true. /s

CNN Appears Desperate To Assist Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3203714/posts


45 posted on 09/13/2014 1:44:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SeekAndFind

Eric the Corrupt sent his band of merry racists out there to generate some evidence. You think that this “video” game changer would have been on CNN an hour after the shooting if it really existed at that time? They probably had NBC take the raw fake video and edit it according to the specifications furnished by the FBI.


46 posted on 09/13/2014 2:15:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Consistency: Every (all) top level manager in the Administration is a pathological liar.)
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To: F15Eagle

When no one listens,
It’s no use talking at all.


47 posted on 09/13/2014 2:19:09 PM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep, and all the shots the officer fired missed, and ricocheted off something in front of Brown running away, entering him from the front, as the autopsy showed. Right.

Call those two “white” guys up, play the tape back to them, then show them the autopsy results, and watch them start hemming, hawing, and turning red.


48 posted on 09/13/2014 2:22:51 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: F15Eagle

Essentially, in a society that lacks honesty, language servers no purpose.

In our society, language has been corrupted so that its sole purpose is to deceive as many people as possible as often as possible.

In Lies We Trust.


49 posted on 09/13/2014 2:26:09 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: cynwoody

They’re still trying to interpret the motorcycle cop’ s recording from Dealey Plaza and whether it was Trayvon Martin or George Zimmer,an yelling help. It would be easier if the left hadn’t led off with “exactly where he was supposed to be, walking to Grandma’s” and “shot in the back.”


50 posted on 09/13/2014 2:27:39 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Paisan

shot at, not shot in.


51 posted on 09/13/2014 3:51:08 PM PDT by SwankyC (Democrats and Republicans agree, govt coercion is OK if it fits your idea of whats OK)
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To: libstripper
Hmm...what's the deal with the two IDENTICAL copies of the witnesses "statement" shown in the car?

I don't understand.

52 posted on 09/13/2014 4:45:27 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: boop

It’s clearly a photocopy.

More interesting is the newspaper shown next to the note. It’s the newspaper of the communist party.


53 posted on 09/13/2014 6:41:10 PM PDT by sonjay
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To: SeekAndFind

Smells like BS.


55 posted on 09/13/2014 9:37:59 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: F15Eagle

Dale Bozzio did it all decades before that Gaga chick.


56 posted on 09/14/2014 6:17:06 AM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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