“Stabilizing it 100% and playing it back frame-by-frame, and knowing what you’re looking for, helped me finally see it.'
The attorney general released that video within three months of the shooting, but no similar footage has been released by James' office nearly four months after Smith’s killing. Her spokesperson did not explain the delay.
No further information on the case was released until the Friday before Labor Day, without a press release. Spokespeople for the NYPD didn’t answer a question about why it took four months for the video to come out . The body-worn camera footage did not show what happened after Smith was shot. Police said they recovered a gun that Smith allegedly used, but it is not seen in the tape and it is not clear if the camera was turned off at this point, which would violate NYPD rules.
In the Smith case, the NYPD did not isolate the image that they say shows Smith firing, nor did they use an arrow to point to where Smith’s weapon may have been, unlike other agencies do and unlike in at least“In the era that we currently live in, we tend to assume, without even thinking about it, that video is a more objective, comprehensive, and accurate source of evidence than any other piece of evidence,” Stoughton said.
But the lack of audio in the Smith video — which could shed critical light on how the incident began and whether Smith realized it was officers who were chasing after him — appears to be due to the fact that the camera wasn’t turned on when it was supposed to be.
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