MD - Suspect's Weapon Falls & Discharges During Arrest by Baltimore Police

[mikkismom]

I cannot find any video, nor do I have cable. Anyone see, on video, if a woman/witness said she saw this person shot? Or was it reported that a woman witnessed a shooting?

It will be very interesting how 'eyewitness testimony' is looked at from this point on. IMO

It was on live video. They interviewed a young woman who said that she saw the man run and saw the police shoot him in the back. She swore he had no gun.

iirc

 

[SStarr33]

Video of police statement:

https://twitter.com/cmcampbell6/status/595316173488726019

 

[katydid23]

So on twitter, folks are NAMING an officer, posting his pic and saying he shot that man in the back and the BPD is covering it up. Oh Lord Have Mercy. Going to be a long night. :sigh:

 

[Tawny]

What does random 'witnesses' who speak to media have to do with credible courtroom eyewitnesses?

 

[Tulessa]

I give up. That's why I get my news HERE! And FOX has no business reporting on a dog race. JMO.

 

[SStarr33]

Thanks to whoever changed the title. I tried, but could not find where to do it.

 

[trigger]

Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin was on the crew Van Susteren mentioned. He told Fox News that “I was getting ready to do a live shot for my shift. I was sitting in the car, scribbling on my notes for the next live shot, and he ran right in front of us.”
“I never saw the individual turn and do anything I would consider an aggressive act, but we did see the officer draw his weapon and I counted one gunshot,” he added.


Tobin also said he “clearly saw a revolver on the sidewalk,” and that the man who had been shot appeared to be “in bad shape” before being taken away in an ambulance.
This is reportedly video of the scene shortly after the shooting.

 

[SStarr33]

Here's Shep:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/shep-smi...ers-erroneous-shooting-account-we-screwed-up/

 

[katydid23]

What does random 'witnesses' who speak to media have to do with credible courtroom eyewitnesses?

Random witnesses who speak to the media often become courtroom eyewitnesses, credible or not.

 

[SStarr33]

I heard on CNN that he threw his gun so cops would not find it on him. It discharged when hitting the ground.

And it sounds like that happened at about the same time the police drew their weapons so people assumed the police shot him.

 

[octobermoon]

Video of the Fox news report when it broke. They are responsible for some of the rumors, even saw a retweet saying something to the effect of..... fox news said it so you know it is true.

ETA fix link

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4215812989001/gun-incident-during-arrest-in-baltimore/?#sp=show-clips

 

[mysteriew]

http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83457953/onflicting reports from people at the scene, Lt. Col. Melvin Russell said.

The man, who was not identified, was arrested for a gun violation and taken to a hospital "out of an abundance of caution," police spokesman Sgt. Jarron Jackson said.

"He had no injuries on his body whatsoever," Russell said

 

[katydid23]

The cops sent him to the hospital for a clean bill of health---didn;t want him to get shot by someone else and it get blamed on them ...:facepalm:

 

[octobermoon]

Matthew Keys ‏@MatthewKeysLive
Never thought I’d see the day when people would struggle to choose whether to believe FOX News or a law enforcement agency. Yet here we are.

https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive

 

[Trident]

Right now I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes. Only in America.

 

[mysteriew]

I saw video recorded from a cell phone after the incident. Total chaos and mayham. One officer seemed almost in tears saying I didn't shoot nobody..

 

[mysteriew]

What are the fox reporters that did the "reporting" saying now?

 

[SStarr33]

Here is a video of an eyewitness. This is insane:

https://twitter.com/_MarcusD_/status/595309646497259521

 

[octobermoon]

What are the fox reporters that did the "reporting" saying now?

Shep apologized for them, I switched channels so maybe someone else knows if Tobin has done so too.

 

[jjenny]

So NOW BPD is saying the suspects gun fell and went off---but none of the cops shot their weapons.

NOTE the witnesses who are saying they SAW the cops shoot him. And the female witness who SWEARS he had no gun and she will NEVER BELIEVE that he did. :no:

He was running away and got shot in the back. Oops. He wasn't shot and in fact it was his own gun that discharged.