Video shows deadly encounter between police, black man

[Calista241]

34. Not necessarily.

If he bought the gun from a gun store, there will be traceable records. If he bought if from a buddy or from the street, who knows what kind of history the gun will have.

I suppose the gun could have been planted, but for it to be planted, the cop would have had to have the gun on his person and been ready to drop it at a moments notice.

Once the gun is public in the video, there won't be any opportunity to plant fingerprints or any other evidence on it. Which should be fairly easy to check for. In addition, the cops fingerprints will be all over it.

Also, when a gun is checked for fingerprints, the most successful place to get them is on the magazine and individual bullets, all of which are internal parts. Planting that kind of evidence would be nearly impossible once the weapon is out in the open, and on video. He'd have to release the magazine, remove rounds from the magazine, place the correct parts of the subject's fingers on the bullets, reload the magazine, load and chamber a round in the gun, and do all of that without being seen by anyone, and without getting his own fingerprints on anything.