Berkeley (MO) officials: Man killed by police had pointed gun at officer

[Travelman]

20. What "cropped video?"

This is just more apocryphal BS. The three different videos released were not "cropped." Some news media people may have cropped the videos later, but what was released to the public was not cropped at all.

This is no different than the now thoroughly-proven-false claim that the cops all stood around a dead body for half an hour before calling an ambulance. Same with this utterly asinine claim that this proven thug was pointing a cell phone at the cops.


We have the video. We have the gun. We have someone who had a long history of violent behavior involving guns. We have multiple witnesses on the scene (ACTUAL witnesses on the scene, unlike the non-witness "witnesses" who claim to have seen Vonderrit Myers with nothing but a 9mm sandwich) who have confirmed that Martin pointed a gun at a cop, and that was CONFIRMED BY THE BLACK MAYOR AND THE BLACK CHIEF OF POLICE. So either this is a gigantic racist conspiracy carried out by a bunch of Black people in high positions in city government, or maybe, just maybe, it might be that this guy, who already had a history of gun violence, pulled a gun on a cop and was rightly shot for his stupidity.


Should the cop have had his body camera on? Yep. You bet your ass he should have. But they're BRAND NEW. It's not an habitual thing for the police in Berkeley to wear body cameras yet. YET. The department has already addressed this issue, BEFORE the shooting occurred: there is already an escalating set of penalties in place for cops who fail to wear and/or activate their body cameras.