A newly released audio recording aired by CNN Monday purportedly captures the sound of gunfire from the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
The unauthenticated audio was recorded by a man who says he was taping a video chat conversation when the shooting of the unarmed black teen by a white police officer occurred around noon on Saturday, Aug. 9.
CNN said it could not independently verify the authenticity of the audio. The man’s attorney, Lopa Blumenthal, said that her client discussed the tape with the FBI. The FBI has yet to comment on whether it questioned the man who made the recording.
“He heard loud noises and at the time he didn’t even realize the import of what he was hearing until afterwards,” Blumenthal told CNN’s Don Lemon. “It just happened to have captured 12 seconds of what transpired outside of his building.”
On the audio, a man can be heard video-chatting a friend while shots ring out in the background. After a pause in the gunfire, more shots can be heard.
A forensic audio expert told the network that he detected a cluster of six gunshots followed by four more after the pause on the recording. A private autopsy ordered by Brown’s family found last week that the unarmed teen had been shot at least six times, including twice in the head.
Watch the CNN segment below:
I bet the rest of the video chat recording is fascinating too.
Still don’t believe a cop landed 6 of 10 in a target more than 10 feet away.
What? You mean there wasn’t one shot in the cop car that started the whole thing? Unpossible!
Well, the call could have started after or something.
Still, though, if there was a shot fired from inside the car, and assuming it was part of the alleged struggle, there is an extremely small chance of that bullet having been courteous enough to go through a window…
Another example where possible hard evidence shows up Jim Crow. This will probably nudge some reluctant whites across the racial divide and down the tricky slope of racial injustice in America.
The police look like fools here under the spotlight. Imagine the many times where the occupation force won out on sheer propaganda and lies.