Posted on 07/22/2015 10:03:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The dashcam video released to the public of the violent arrest of Sandra Bland was edited.
Bland was a 28-year-old Black Lives Matter civil rights activist and vocal critic of police brutality who died in police custody after a Texas officer pulled her over for a traffic violation, ordered her out of her car when she refused to put out her cigarette, and aggressively arrested her. Police say Bland committed suicide, yet the Waller County prosecutor says Bland’s case is “being treated just as it would be a murder investigation.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety uploaded dashcam police video of the arrest to YouTube on 21 July. Parts of the approximately 52 minutes of footage it uploaded have clearly been doctored.
A man leaves the truck in the center of the frame at 25:05. For the next 15 seconds, he walks toward the right of the frame and leaves. At 25:19, he suddenly appears again, promptly disappears, then returns at 25:22. The same footage of him walking is subsequently repeated.
The following video consists of 25:01-25:32 in the footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety:
This is not the only part of the video that was edited.
At 32:37, a white car drives into the left side of the frame, then promptly disappears in the middle of the road. Seconds later, the same car drives back into the frame and subsequently turns left. This footage is later looped several times.
A different white car also drives into the left side of the frame and turns left from 32:49 to 32:59. The previous white car again briefly enters the frame at 33:04, and once more at 33:06, yet it suddenly disappears both times. When these cuts are made in the footage, the lights on top of the truck in the center of the frame also abruptly cut out.
At 33:08, the exact same footage from 32:37 is repeated, followed by the same second white car at 33:17.
The following video consists of 33:02-33:12 in the footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety:
The same happens from 33:50-34:12, which can be seen in the following video:
Similar edits and loops are made throughout the video.
It appears that someone cut footage out and looped part of the video in order to correspond with the recorded audio of Texas state trooper Brian Encinia speaking. Who exactly edited the footage is unknown, but the video was recorded by police and released by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay also agrees that the video has been edited.
“I edit footage for a living. But anyone can see that this official video has been cut,” DuVernay wrote.
And forgive me for posting yet another Sandra Bland video article. What is this? The 4th or 5th thread on this video?
Anywhoo, this guy makes points I’ve not seen in any of the previous threads.
What the cop should have done is cut her into pieces, sold her internal organs, and called it a post-natal abortion - and the Left would be celebrating it instead.
Figures. Cops can’t handle the truth.
IF this footage was retouched, who did it and why?
By the time these alleged “edits” occur, back-up had arrived and she was cuffed and in the cruiser, probably not on scene at all. What point would there be to edit the footage there?
Perhaps other officers who arrived later were talking about the event?
The fact the video was edited at all is the issue.
Fox is covering this now and the video is clearly edited.
In the video she says she is going to call her lawyer. Then she languishes in jail for 3 days. Why didn’t she call her lawyer and get out of jail, post bail and get out?
That wasn't the question I responded to...:^)
DuVernay makes crappy movies. She doesn’t know squat about anything
The accusations were that the video was looped late in the footage, the audio was not. Inference being something was cut from the video portion. Irrelevant now because the edits claimed to have been there are not in the video at the link.
AZ, the audio shows that the arresting officer is recounting the incident to a superior on his cell phone. If you watch the whole video, it's clear how the incident escalated, which appears to have been Bland's intention.
Is it possible that somebody came into the frame and was speaking...but that audio has been removed...and this is why the video was altered.
Yes its wild speculation...but the video is clearly edited. I wish these dashcams and body cams were instantly uploaded to site that could be accessed by a third party. Keeping the police as the gatekeepers fosters distrust...especially when they doctor video like this.
Have you watched the video at the link ? There may have been some irregularities/edits in an earlier release. Whatever those may have been, at least those noted in the link in the thread topic, are not present in the (shorter by 3 minutes) footage now available.
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