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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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.
They will never, ever let this go, folks.
Crump is rehearsing his witnesses.
CNN, the agitprop specialists? It must be true. /s
CNN Appears Desperate To Assist Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks . . .
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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.
When no one listens,
It’s no use talking at all.
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.
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.
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.”
shot at, not shot in.
I don't understand.
It’s clearly a photocopy.
More interesting is the newspaper shown next to the note. It’s the newspaper of the communist party.
Smells like BS.
Dale Bozzio did it all decades before that Gaga chick.
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