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.
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That's a game changer in the same way that this new video is a game changer.
The REAL “game changer” could have been if CNN had given the “gentle giant” a job.
Where’s da plane?
Although CNN doesn’t mention it here, the contractor said he heard “two shots” separated by 30 seconds. That’s not in agreement with anything else we’ve heard.
LOL...I read the headline too quick and thought somebody had come out with a Michael Brown video game!
That was my first impression, too.
Would these two johnny-come-latelys be willing to testify to that effect under oath? How does their testimony mesh with the forensic evidence that seems to indicate Brown was bum-rushing Wilson? Where “eyewitness” testimony contradicts objective facts, the facts (SHOULD) win every time.
The BS is so deep in this “report” that I’ll drown if I stay on this thread.
Two shots....I’d say the only thing they saw was the ‘gentle giant” (my a**) throwing up his hands as he began to fall and the shots they heard were the last two shots. In other words....they have a piece missing that is very definite...he was running away at first.
No
Um, no. Since the “witness” was at least 50’ away, his response to the occurrence is meaningless. Doesn’t prove anything except the guy thinks the perp had his hands up in surrender.
I really do not care what anyone told anyone.
Words don’t mean anything in this country.
This is just another racist CNN hoax. For an complete analysis showing these to liars were about 250 feet away from the shooting and had their line of sight blocked by one or more buildings, see:
Tragically your comment regarding words losing their meaning is largely true.
One of the guys in the video claims that Brown was shot in the back, while running away. Since forensic evidence shows NO wounds to the back, ANYTHING these guys say on their video is of no use...
Hmmmmm ..?? Construction workers = UNION WORKERS = plants from the DEMOCRATS ..!!!!!!
See how easy that was .. and CNN has been known to fudge and lie about this or that - for quite some time.
Until we figure out that the LEFT is not a nice group of people; they will always be able to pull stunts like this.
Just as most of us have said about the media, we don’t know for sure what happened with Brown. If the officer is in the wrong, he should face the consequences. My objection has been that the media and the representatives of blacks have assumed that the officer was wrong and that Michael Brown was merely a “gentle giant” that was persecuted by the police. These men’s statements are additional evidence, to be considered with all the rest. We should not jump to any conclusion any more than the media should not.
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