Posted on 12/13/2012 7:07:59 PM PST by Uncle Chip
As you may remember, on March 29th we were reviewing another “exclusive” ABC release of George Zimmerman at Sanford Police Dept, when we noticed something odd, the video was/is actually a recording of a monitor. Initially we thought that meant it was not an official release. We were wrong.
ABC was given a digital Hi-def copy from the outset.We now know that ABC was the first to possess a digital copy of the actual CCTV recording. But they chose instead to use a lesser quality, and far lower definition, video. (This is what they aired)
Here’s the story:
On March 28th ABC’s Candace Smith (seen left) was the first to gain posession of the video.
On 3/28 she asked SPD for the video, the police department was initially not going to release it since the area covered by the camera view was considered a secured area and not subject to release without a judge’s order.
However, an attorney working for the city, Lonnie Groot, who was tasked with reviewing all the requests for information, agreed to release it since it was actually on the city’s servers.
Ms. Smith was provided a direct hi-def copy DVD; But for some reason she was unable to get it to load through their equipment (or so the story is told). Sources indicate she was quite agitated, and so, trying to meet a deadline, she went angrily to City Hall. Once there she raised quite a stink about SPD, not giving her and ABC suitable material, nor actually fulfilling the request.
The city played her copy on their equipment and showed her it worked.
Apparently, she was pushing to make a deadline to go on air and asked if she could just video the material from the city’s monitor. The request was granted. The video was filmed with a small minicam similar to the one held in this picture (above).
So yes, even though ABC had actual physical custody of a direct copy in High Def, the first airing to hit the public airwaves on March 28th was video of a video. Again, Ms. Candace Smith was the first to gain access to this video. Subsequently, more media copies were made for all the requests that followed.
If you recall, all the commentary about that video were framed to a narrative ”showing no injuries, no blood etc,” this mantra was repeated several times throughout the initial showing and then picked up by other media outlets using the EXACT same footage.
Here is where the agenda shows, and it appears that ABC may have intentionallly played this video using a ridiculous low resolution on purpose so that no identifying injuries could be noticed. After all, this was the main point of their reporting on the “exclusive”.
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Instead of a check, he could ask to have it given him in new (single?) coin of the realm?
Coin Week The Coin Analyst: Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coins and San Francisco Eagle Set Number Released
Notice: there are actual no plans to mint a $trillion$ coin.
According to the police, Trayvon was shot once in the chest, one shell casing was found on the ground and the magazine was still full. This is not how semi-automatics work. When a semi-automatic weapon is fired, the bullet travels out the barrel, the slide cycles backward ejecting the empty shell and another round is drawn from the magazine and inserted in the chamber ready to fire. So each time the trigger is pulled, a shell is ejected and another round is placed in the chamber until the magazine is empty. At that point, the slide remains locked in the open position, waiting to be cycled manually. If the stories are being reported accurately (and given the news media’s consistent lying in this case that’s certainly not a given), then this is not normal behavior.
There is a way to fire a round without cycling the slide. If you put a hand on the slide to hold it in place and then pull the trigger, you can prevent the normal cycle. In that case, the magazine would remain full.
If Trayvon was grabbing the gun, this could explain the situation.
ABC also used the lower resolution video so they could continue to characterize Zimmerman as a white male.
Yeah, Rodney King comes to mind. But I think Zimmerman would have to be acting in a governmental capacity for Civil Rights charges to apply.
I have never kept a magazine full. Just my preference.
Yep.
I hope Zimmerman goes after every last one of these scumbag Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms.
Howard University is the latest school to join ABC’s “ABC News on Campus” program, the network announced Tuesday.
The program — started in 2008 — creates bureaus at universities around the country, staffed with journalism students who work with ABC News producers to report local stories, some of which are featured across ABC News platforms — many appear onABCNewsOnCampus.com.
Candace Smith, a senior broadcast journalism major, has been named Howard University’s bureau chief. Smith interned this summer with ABC’s “Good Morning America” in New York City; she previously interned at Fox-owned WTTG in Washington.
Zimmerman got off one shot. The KelTec he had, failed to chamber another cartridge. It did not jam. That means something prevented the slide from cycling. Zimmerman would have had a very difficult time racking the slide with Martin on top of him if the first shot hadn’t been so lethal.
Either Martin had his hand on the slide when the gun was fired. It was jammed between the two bodies. Or Zimmerman limp wristed the gun when it was fired allowing it to move so much the recoil that would have normally cycled the slide and chambered another round caused the gun to flop around.
There is a way to fire a round without cycling the slide. If you put a hand on the slide to hold it in place and then pull the trigger, you can prevent the normal cycle. In that case, the magazine would remain full.
If Trayvon was grabbing the gun, this could explain the situation.
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Another possibility would be Zimmerman bracing the rear of the pistol against his body which would prevent the action from fully cycling.....
This case just becomes a bigger travesty
Good that Zimmerman hired the Beasley Law Firm for his civil cases. The discovery in his civil actions are going to be even more revealing....heck they may even find which Correctional Facility DeeDee (Witness 8) was picked up from for her Apr 2 deposition...
And, all Floridians, make sure to primary out Gov Rick Scott and AG Pam Bondi in 2014. They put in SA Angela Corey when the Seminole SA Wolfinger would not play along with the Black Racists. They can end this travesty by pulling Corey...but refuse to do so
Meanwhile, my county goes bankrupt paying for this travesty
Speaking of which, if Zimmerman is found guilty, does that impact his suit against NBC? Is that NBC’s only defense, hoping that Zimmerman is found guilty?
Not necessarily.
If he were to be convicted (as long as his trial is in Seminole County, with Seminole residents on jury, he will not be convicted)...and his case was overturned on appeal based on certain factors (like media slander that prevented a fair trial)....the media is not off the hook.
NBC will most likely settle out of court...especially if the Duval SA continues to pursue criminal charges and does not drop the case. The longer the criminal case goes on, the more it is kept in the news, and the more damage is done to Zimmerman
Too bad we don’t have Candace Smith investigated by the FBI to see if she might have a racist background. All leftists have a trail of racist hate expression. They use racism to advance their agenda whenever they can possibly twist it to their purposes.
The racists pigs who did this as “news” are responsible for many innocent whites being attacked by mobs of blacks and and individuals. That is addition to what they did to Zimmerman. They ran a race hate rally nationwide.
Which seems more likely: that a semi-auto firearm would cycle well enough to completely eject a round without stove-piping, but not enough to strip a round from the magazine, or that a firearm with e.g. a ten-round magazine would be described as having a "fully loaded" magazine if it had nine in the mag and one in the chamber [I don't remember the actual capacity of Mr. Zimmerman's pistol]? While I suppose certain firearms might possibly short-cycle as described, and Mr. Zimmerman might have had such a weapon, it seems more likely that the language of the report was chosen to make clear that the firearm could not have been fired twice since it was last loaded, than to describe an unusual malfunction mode.
I SMELL B$
Even IF that story were true, why didnt they play the HD video and hour later when they got back to the station?
why did they NEVER play it until recently? but instead keep playing the lo-res version?
I hope zimmerman OWNS the station when he is through with them
Which seems more likely: that a semi-auto firearm would cycle well enough to completely eject a round without stove-piping, but not enough to strip a round from the magazine, or that a firearm with e.g. a ten-round magazine would be described as having a "fully loaded" magazine if it had nine in the mag and one in the chamber [I don't remember the actual capacity of Mr. Zimmerman's pistol]? While I suppose certain firearms might possibly short-cycle as described, and Mr. Zimmerman might have had such a weapon, it seems more likely that the language of the report was chosen to make clear that the firearm could not have been fired twice since it was last loaded, than to describe an unusual malfunction mode.
What I quoted said the empty casing was on the ground. If the casing were stove-piped in the gun, then that would represent a relatively common malfunction. In that scenario, the number of rounds in the magazine would depend upon whether Mr. Zimmerman topped off the magazine after loading the chamber; unless the report gives a number of rounds, however, I wouldn't rely upon the term "full" to distinguish between the topped-off and non-topped-off scenarios (with a ten-round magazine, a gun with nine in the mag and one in the pipe would often be considered "fully loaded", whether or not it would be possible to top of the mag and re-insert it while keeping a round chambered).
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