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To: Faith Presses On

There was a few moments betweem the time he took out his gun and he fired. It seems to me he could have easily used that free arm to keep him pinned to get cuffs on or get backup.


60 posted on 07/06/2016 6:19:29 PM PDT by Crucial
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I watched this video in slow motion, and took some still shots from it. There is a lot going on in just a few seconds, and it isn't very easy to make it all out.

It seems that at around 3 seconds, Sterling hand moves, and at 4 seconds, his right arm comes back and he pulls his head off the ground. That is when one officer says he has a gun. Both officers then reach for their guns as well (the one on top of Sterling visibly does so at the 5-second mark, but I don't have a still photo of it here) and the officer on top of Sterling also apparently wrestles with Sterling's right arm for several seconds. At the 6-second mark, one can see the officer's hand apparently grabbing Sterling's, and several seconds later, just before the first shot, their hands again appear that way. For several seconds the officer on top and Sterling seem to wrestle along Sterling's right arm and side, and at around 9 seconds the camera jerks and the wrestling intensifies and at around 10 seconds is the first gunshot coinciding with the officer on top either flinging himself off Sterling or being thrown off of him as Sterling partly sits up. Once the camera is turned back on the officers and Sterling, it seems that the officer with his gun drawn is likely the officer who was on top of Sterling.


67 posted on 07/06/2016 7:24:31 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: Crucial; All

That is the moment when the officer on top of Sterling reaches for his gun. I could be wrong, because it's hard to tell, but he seems to draw it at that point, too.

69 posted on 07/06/2016 7:31:02 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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