“...the US Department of Justice said it would weigh federal hate crime charges in the case, which could carry a death penalty.”
Are Holder and Obama back in charge? There is no hate crime law in Georgia. So they have thrown in a fishing line.
We are not privy yet to what happened prior to the shooting as below is further tape that may indicate a possible crime prior to the shooting by the deceased. But that is unclear right now as we did see two separate police cruiser go down the street, one at a high rate of speed prior to the shooting.
In the shooting sequence, it appeared the shooter was coming from the right side of the vehicle across the front which I can’t understand as the other person in the vehicle was in the bed. Doesn’t make sense unless he waited until the driver got out and climbed into the bed before he got out by the passenger door. If he was the driver, why slide across or get out and walk on the right side of the truck with a shotgun in hand? And why cross to the left side of the vehicle with that formidable a weapon when he could have stayed on the right side of the truck and accomplished whatever he was trying to do.
Also, when the shooter started across the front of the truck, the deceased rushed and engaged the shooter near the left bumper. Why’d he charge the shooter with a shotgun in his hands?
There appears to be a real lull in time from the time the truck stopped and the violence started. What happened there?
Lot of questions to be answered before there is what is needed to make a call. There is no question due to the video that the gun was discharged during a scuffle. Also that the deceased was rushing the shooter as fast as the shooter came at him. Against a shotgun? What was he trying to do?
So time and what actually happened at the crime scene needs evaluation.
Possible further tape:
rwood
There is no question due to the video that the gun was discharged during a scuffle. Also that the deceased was rushing the shooter as fast as the shooter came at him. Against a shotgun? What was he trying to do?
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Compared to the speed of the deceased’s rush, the shooter was barely moving. At trial, experts will be going over this video frame by frame measuring each individual’s movement microsecond by microsecond. Those experts will be determining, to the microsecond, the times of each shotgun blast and, factoring in the relative speeds of light and of sound, exactly where the shotgun was at at the precise microsecond of eachdischarge.