Wednesday, November 30, 2016
No Footage of Brown Shooting?
I just wanted to take a second and look at something strange I noticed about the shooting of Michael Brown. Almost every witness, or at least a large number of them, reported that they stopped looking at the shooting for a moment so they could get out their phones and record. But where are those recordings??? Maybe I missed something but even on youtube I cannot find a single video of the shooting itself. It's not like this was 2003 and phones were slow and not all of them had cameras, this shooting took place in 2014, when everyone more or less has a camera on their phone with the touch of a button. Lately, people record everything they see. School fights are recorded, police brutality is recorded, even kids flipping water bottles are recorded but somehow everyone missed this? If at least ten people said they were getting their phone out to record, and the entire interaction lasted a couple minutes, we can assume that maybe some people didn't get to their phone cameras in time, and that some didn't have their phone charged, and some video might be so blurry that it is useless, but really nobody was able to get at least a couple seconds of footage? In this age of information, it is almost your civic duty as a citizen of the United States with access to a device that can record film to record any violence or potential wrongdoing because, as we have seen during this trial, eye witness testimony is unreliable.
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I know at least one witness turned over video they managed to record after the altercation, but yeah, it's kind of weird.
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