One video on NBC does not appear to show frightened women in the vehicle.
Rather, one woman gets out of the vehicle and challenges the ICE officer repeatedly as to why he is filming the licence plate, as she is filming the officer. The driver looks directly at his camera (phone) and says something.
Neither seems frightened to me. But.... other people can have different spins.
Neither am I. And, I agree, the videos are out there.
Jonathon Ross gets out of his vehicle and has his phone on.
The video is 47 seconds long.
At 3 seconds he exits the car. While he walks counterclockwise from the passenger side to the driver's side you hear RC say, 'It's okay, dude, I'm not mad at you.' Her left arm is outside the vehicle; her fingers aren't clenched; she seems relaxed. She's smiling. The time is 18 seconds. He says nothing.
He continues to walk around the car to the rear checking out the license plate. At 21 seconds, RC's wife makes some snarky remark about their license plate being the same one tomorrow as it is today, making reference to ICE's strategy to use rental vehicles and switching out the plates. No aggression, though. He says nothing.
As he continues to move counterclockwise the wife continues to made snide remarks about him getting some lunch. He says nothing. The time is 34 seconds.
At 39 seconds Becca Good attempts to get in the front passenger seat but because Renee has been moving the vehicle, the door is locked. At the same time Becca yells 'drive, baby, drive', I presume because she thought she could get the door open.
At almost exactly the same time, 40 seconds, you hear an ICE agent at the driver's door, yelling to RG to get out of the car. Again at almost exactly the same time (if you count how long a second is, at the 40 second mark) you count out loud, one thousand and one, JR is standing to the right of the Honda. You can see RG through the windscreen from the right, almost out of the frame. She appears to be looking right, not at JC, in the direction I presume she is leaving. He says nothing.
At 41 seconds, the angle changes completely, where you are looking over the hood of the vehicle and at the back of JR's SUV. Still during the 41 second period (remember the count - one thousand and one) now we're looking at the side of JR's vehicle including the back door. He says nothing.
At 42 seconds the angle changes abruptly and you hear someone verbalize, you are looking at sky. At 43 seconds you hear shots.
At 43 seconds, JR mutters f***ing b****h.
From the 43 second mark to the 47 second mark you see RG's vehicle driving away. The end of the video you are looking at the ground because I believe that is when JR holstered his weapon.
From the 18 second mark to the 43 second mark is 25 seconds. Twenty five seconds where a woman was pleasant to an ICE officer with no sign of aggression, anger or snark to being shot 3 times. The only time he spoke was to mutter a profanity.
www.abc.net.au
