Daily Kos - Sandra Bland Video Loops, Not Real

[SecularMotion]

Exposition: This is the video tape released by Texas DPS on their YouTube channel. At about 32:00 in the video, the office is the middle of his justification for his actions and his version of the events in a one way conversation.

While the audio is never broken, the cars on Texas Highway 290, one of my favorite in Texas, magically appear and disappear in a tragic loop. That is what this is about.

Ghost cars on Highway 290 or the DPS better have a better story.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/22/1404463/-Sandra-Bland-Video-Boss-Hogg-BS

[PADemD]

1. Please read. Important find.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Black Twitter feeds were all over this almost as soon as the video was released.

I have to say, I wish I'd taken up using Twitter a long time ago. There are a lot of voices out there I would never hear otherwise.

[ohheckyeah]

3. The are talking

about it on CNN. Just broke for a commercial - hope they come back to it.

[Helen Borg]

4. Wow, just checked it!

Totally edited after 32:00. There are cuts and it looks like the same car loop is copied over and over. It's the same car over and over and lots of sudden disappearances! A likely explanation is that the cop recorded a second version of the story and the audio track was pasted on top of the edited video. But the strange thing about this is that I cannot imagine there being anything of interest going on in the video at that time. So, why not just insert a modified audio segment and keep the video intact?... Really odd, but this video is bogus!

[Fast Walker 52]

6. very interesting-- could be they added in extra audio to make her speech

exaggerated. I listened to the video last night (didn't watch it closely) and couldn't believe how many times she called the cop a pussy and so forth. I bet they exaggerated her taunting to make it seem worse than it was.

[fredamae]

7. I wonder

if an expert in Forensics could interpret the activity(?) in the reflection of the hood of the police car?
It seems you can see motion -

Can any of the witnesses driving by can be found via license plates? Also, is it just me or is there a same small white car that seems to keep driving by or is that a result of possible tampering of police video evidence?

This whole thing Stinks to high heaven.

[Lee-Lee]

8. I don't know what the case is here, but one thing to keep in mind

Well, two actually...

First, some newer dash cam systems have lots of fall backs and built in buffering that can store a set amount of video and add it back in. For example some buffer a minute or 30 seconds and put that back into the memory with a marker any time the lights or siren are manipulated.

Then that section of video is retired longer in memory.

For example, let's say a system can record 100 hours of video. After 100 hours it erases old data for new.

However, it can be set to retain video from traffic stops longer- for a set amount or until downloaded. That way useless driving around footage is only stored a few days but any video that can be needed as evidence is stored longer.

The system is usually triggered by the activation of lights or sirens, and will have a set amount of state buffered as well- it will then store the buffered data along with everything that happens while the lights are on plus a programmed period after as higher priority video to retain. This is done so that, for example, with a DUI arrest the video will show what the officer was seeing the car head do before they turned the blue lights on.

If they were turning blue lights on and off even momentarily it could cause it to go back and dump that buffered video again.

My last dash cam was like that with a 2 minute buffer- when looking at footage you would see when I turned on the blue lights it would drop back 2 minutes and start again from that point if we downloaded it before the "routine" video had been overwritten.

Second- dash cam systems are notoriously jumpy anyway. They go through a ton of abuse living in the trunk of a cop car constantly jostled and in high heat and deep cold.

[madville]

10. I agree

I used to work for an electronics company that contracted with law enforcement agencies. I worked on in-car camera systems ranging from VHS recorders in the trunk of the car to realtime DVD recording, Hard drives, flash memory, etc, etc.

To say these systems are glitchy would be an understatement. I've seen all kinds of crazy loops and errors with these systems. This sort of thing actually really pisses off the agencies because sometimes it can put their case against a suspect into jeopardy if a key piece of video or audio is absent.

Like you said, these things are shut off, turned on, bounced around, banged into, etc, etc nonstop. I wouldn't be surprised if these weird video buffer/loops were created by a record direct to DVD system, I've seen it before.

I'm pretty confident the FBI will be looking into it and would easily detect any intentional editing. Editing the tow truck driver and traffic scenes doesn't make much sense to begin with anyway.

[markpkessinger]

12. It isn't just a single instance of looping . . .

At 32:37, a white car drives into the left side of the frame, then promptly disappears in the middle of the road. Seconds later, the same car drives back into the frame and subsequently turns left. This footage is later looped several times.

A different white car also drives into the left side of the frame and turns left from 32:49 to 32:59. The previous white car again briefly enters the frame at 33:04, and once more at 33:06, yet it suddenly disappears both times. When these cuts are made in the footage, the lights on top of the truck in the center of the frame also abruptly cut out.

At 33:08, the exact same footage from 32:37 is repeated, followed by the same second white car at 33:17.

[HeartoftheMidwest]

15. Even if we accept that dashcam videos can be jumpy and glitchy.....

......the audio isn't.

They don't track.
They are extensively altered.
Someone has tampered with evidence.

[Enthusiast]

17. +1!

[ecstatic]

9. So how can we trust the jailhouse video

In light of the fact that the dashcam video was edited?

[madville]

14. How can you really trust any video or audio

No matter what there will always be doubt.

In the end, I seriously doubt the jailers or person managing the video at the DPS post have the technical expertise to edit either video in a way that the FBI will not be able to detect. If there was foul play I would be confident that they can identify it.

[Enthusiast]

18. We can't. The police are not trustworthy. The FBI is not trustworthy.

The entire criminal justice system has been compromised.

[Helen Borg]

19. Totally....

But I bet that some digital forensic folks could spot whether there is a discontinuity in the video by using noise statistics, stuff like that...

[7962]

11. Reminds me of the stuff Putin releases if its that obviously fake.

They do stuff like that all the time

[Triana]

13. the SAME cars going round and round. IntereSTINK. n/t

[CanonRay]

16. Wow, what a lousy doctoring job.

Won't take the FBI lab to figure out this this is a complete fraud.