• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    In police body-camera footage obtained by NBC News, an officer is seen exiting his vehicle and aiming a firearm at the teenager as he runs away. The officer fired at least four shots, the police chief said, and Hinton fell to the ground. 
    The footage does not clearly show whether the 18-year-old brandished his gun toward police.

    they executed that kid and then planted a gun on his corpse… is this your first time?

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      17 hours ago

      See, this is what I was talking about.

      You’re so confident, just because it lines up with your favorite way to look at things, even though you have literally no idea what happened.

      Confidence and easy answers that always point the same direction, that feel good and let you be righteous about what you’re saying, are alluring. They feel safe and solid, and people trust them. Be careful of that.

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        16 hours ago

        after watching hundreds of videos where it happens exactly like that, and after watching video of this exact incident. no.
        it’s quite clear the kid didn’t fire first. no gun visible in the bodycam video at all….
        they shot him in the back while he was running away.

        you’re a lot more confident than me, responding to every single comment on here like spam….

        we don’t need your opinion over and over and over again.

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            6 hours ago

            the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
            this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.

            you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots… “i have no idea what the previous frame of the video shows!?!”.

            at least read the article you posted yourself.

            clearly you came in here to defend to cops.

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            6 hours ago

            the article that YOU LINKED… right here ^
            this article… provides a link to the video, and talks about the video.

            you could watch it yourself, but instead you’re arguing against screenshots…

            clearly you came in here to defend to cops.

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              6 hours ago

              What, the video that doesn’t show the relevant part of the shooting or the segment that includes the screengrab?

              I thought maybe I was the weird one, so I went back and watched the whole thing just to make sure. No, it’s basically B-roll and the chief talking and the least relevant part of the incident. That’s it. The video tells you nothing at all about what happened.

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              16 hours ago

              That’s not a video, that’s a screen grab. It looks like the video itself on the site only shows from the second officer’s camera, and fades out when the shooting starts. xor said they’d watched the video of the actual incident… but maybe they meant this video which doesn’t really show a damn thing. Am I missing something?

              I mean maybe they are not releasing the first person video because it clearly shows the kid’s hands were empty or something, and the officer lied when he said the kid brandished his gun at him. I have no idea. This screen grab could be right after showing his hands empty, or this could be a frame from 0.2 seconds after the kid pointed his gun at the cop just like the cop said, or something in between.

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                  6 hours ago

                  Okay, so it sounds like you haven’t actually seen a video of the incident. You’ve seen a video of the dumpster and heard shots being fired as the screen turns grey. Good to know.

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                    6 hours ago

                    once the cops start murdering him, they cut the video.

                    do you think that’s when he pulls his gun out and starts shooting?

                    you don’t know shit