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secondwind

(16,903 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:46 PM Oct 2014

Has anyone captured the Michael Brown video where he has his hands up in the air?

I need to prove that he was not resisting and was surrendering, before he was shot.

Thank you!

I know I have seen the video, but am having difficulty finding it

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arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. I'm wondering too, I didn't realize there was a video!
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:48 PM
Oct 2014

I've seen the vid of the construction crew (or were they landscapers..?) who had just witnessed the shooting, and they were yelling at the cops "he had his hands up!"

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. Yes, but I saw a video where he put the two cans of soda or beer or whatever on the ground, and was
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:51 PM
Oct 2014

surrendering... Am I thinking of another police murder?

drray23

(7,962 posts)
5. yes it was
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:58 PM
Oct 2014

Another man who also got shot by police. He was clearly mentally disturbed and the bystanders did not view him as dangerous at all. Somebody called the police to get him help and next thing you know they come out guns blazing and kill the guy.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
4. Yeah, I don't think there's any video of him before he was shot.
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:56 PM
Oct 2014

There were witness statements of what happened, but all video is of him lying on the ground.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
6. Here's a post...
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 04:10 PM
Oct 2014

...that I made in August. It's raw video from right after it happened. There's at least one guy in the crowd that sounds like an actual eyewitness. I transcribed the audio, with timestamps, where I thought it was pertinent.
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Here's the original cell phone video, recorded right after it happened:



There are multiple places throughout the video where you can hear people (possibly eyewitnesses) in the background say that the police fired on Michael Brown after he was already down. Some of it is hearsay but some of the people sound like they might be actual eyewitnesses.

In the video, you can see the trail of brains in a straight line from the top of his head, which would seem, to me, to indicate that Michael Brown was shot in the head after already being down on the ground.

My transcript:

Voice of guy recording the video at the beginning - "Killed him for no reason… They just kilt this 'n*gga' for no reason…

Voice of guy recording the video @ :57 -
What did he do? What did the dude do?… Man, he dead as a motherfucker…

Voice of guy taking the video @ 2:24 - I heard the gunshots… came outside with my phone… that's the 'n*gga' laying in the middle of the street, dead…brains all over the motherfuckin' street. I would like to have known who this motherfucker is…

Male voice (possible eyewitness) in the background @ 2:38 - "He had his hands up,… and he hit the ground and he still fired on him."

Male voice (possible eyewitness) in the background @ 3:42 - "No reason! He's on the ground and they still shot him!"

Voice of guy recording the video (repeating what he heard from witnesses) @ 4:58 -
"Police killed dude… Police kilt him, yo… Said he had his hands up and everything…they still shot him. He fell on the ground; they stood over him and shot him some more..."

The newly released audio with the sound of 6 (or 7) gunshots, a pause and then 4 more gunshots, seems to verify the eyewitness accounts in the early cell phone video.

TYY

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
7. you might mean the construction workers
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 05:54 PM
Oct 2014

the two white guys, who witnessed the Brown shooting, there is video of them holding their hands up, demonstrating what Brown did when shot.

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