This blogger, a former author, former law professor, and former felony criminal defense attorney in state and federal courts specializing in death penalty defense, forensics, and complex litigation, is posting about the case of Kendrick's death and has several interesting points. More at link below.
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.......Compare the long pants he was wearing when he entered the gym, by looking at the video that shows him in the hall before he enters the gym, to the blue jean shorts he was wearing in the tube, as shown in the photograph that displays his lower body.
While you’re at it, take a look at the athletic shoes that appear in that photograph and ask yourself who placed them there and when did they do it? I don’t believe Kendrick could have or would have placed them there.
Next question: Is he wearing those shoes when he enters the gym? Difficult for me to tell from the video whether the white athletic shoes that he is wearing when he enters the gym have the red trim that is visible in the photograph.
More questions: Why and where did he change his pants and why was he looking for another pair of shoes?
Quick guess: He likely would have changed his pants in a bathroom and would have to have taken off his shoes before removing his pants. I doubt there were video cameras in the bathrooms, so that would have been a good place for an ambush. Also may have been an opportune location to roll him up in a mat.
Final Question: What happened to his long pants?
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Kendrick Johnson was not alone in the gym.
Victor Blackwell, who has been doing a splendid job of covering the Kendrick Johnson case for CNN, explains how he reached that conclusion in this CNN video with Anderson Cooper.
He explains why he wanted to view additional CCTV video:
Lieutenant Stride Jones, who has been the face of the investigation for the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department, at least for the media, and we have the official record from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from the Medical Examiner’s office and they recount a conversation with Stride Jones on January
16th and here it is.
The decedent was seen on the school video going into the gym around 1300 hours alone. The video did not show any other children or staff in the gym with the decedent at that time. BBM
Here’s what Stride Jones told the Valdosta Daily Times on May 4th.
He [Kendrick] comes down the hallway, and he essentially enters the gym. He’s following another kid. The first kid comes in and goes to the left. Kendrick goes in and off to the right where the mats are. BBM
A clear discrepancy between those two statements.
Blackwell wrote this letter to the attorney who represents the school district asking the following question:
Are minors for whom Lowndes County has not received consent to release educational records depicted in the surveillance video recorded inside the Old Gym at Lowndes High School on January 10, 2013 between 1:09 pm and 1:20 pm?
He told Anderson Cooper that he received the following answer to his question:
We chose 1:09 pm because that is the time this picture was taken. In the response by the attorney for the school district. he writes, I answer your pointed question with, “Yes.” So confirmation that Kendrick was not alone in the gym.
We not only know that Kendrick was not alone, we know that Lieutenant Stride Jones lied about that on January 16th. BBM
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