American Everyman – by Scott Creighton
This video of the Berkely shooting incident has surfaced and is being reported as being proof positive that Antonio Martin pointed a gun at the officer before being shot. The video is posted in the lowest resolution possible on Youtube and cut off just before the shooting takes place. So it’s not conclusive what Antonio was doing with his hand. He may have just been pointing at the officer.
But one thing it does prove is the altercation and subsequent shooting took place right in front of the officer’s police car. That dashcam had to have captured the whole thing in living color.
Here’s the video. It’ll be in the upper left hand corner starting around the 1:17 mark. Antonio appears to turn away from the officer and take a few steps as if he were leaving and then turn back to the cop.
Is it possible Antonio pulled a gun on the officer? Yeah. But contrary to what people are being told, this video doesn’t prove it. If anyone has seen a higher resolution version, please let me know.
The video shows absolutely nothing, and as the author points out, there should also be a dash-cam video that shows everything in great detail.
If they’re hiding one video, and showing nothing to the public, you can safely guess that you’re being lied to.
If I had to GUESS, I’d say it LOOKS like these guys were selling drugs in front of that store, but they were walking away quietly when the police pulled up, and provided no probable cause for the police to bother them in the first place.
They’ll release the Dashcam video when things start to simmer down too much, to unleash a fresh wave of violence.
Gotta keep the fire stoked.