“Second, there is an obvious break in the video at 0:16-0:17. It’s *just* before we see the officer draw his gun to shoot. That break seems pretty damn suspicious to me. I am going to listen further to the background noises to see if there is continuity.”
I think that you are dreaming. Video of a decent resolution from a known source is a MILLION times harder to modify than a document or even audio in an undetectable manner. I’m not even certain that the technology exists to do it undetectably, period. And you can bet that this will be heavily scrutinized by the leading experts on this planet. Why do it if being caught at it is a certainty (this statement does not apply to the nearly-senile, such as Dan Rather).
If this kid has the talent and technology at his disposal to do this successfully (in an amazingly short time frame, BTW), he is wasting his time, he needs to work for the government for really really big bucks and fix all of Obama’s “mistakes”.
Just go watch the video with your eyes closed for the first 20 seconds. If you don’t hear the obvious audio jump, get your ears checked. If you need an audible clue to latch on to, try and focus on the siren in the background.
Once you have the audio break fixed, watch again with your eyes open. It occurs at the same moment that the video jumps very suddenly.
Something has been cut out.
Oh, and it’s not a clean edit by any means - it’s pretty ham-handed. No talent demonstrated at all.