Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I'm "brilliant" enough to recognize that everything posted on YouTube and other popular social media sites by people trying to influence others to take some course of action, may not necessarily be the whole truth. In fact some people have been known to post deceptive, one-sided presentations that may or may not accurately reflect the whole story.
I am also "brilliant" enough to recognize that some people are so stupid, or gullible or dogmatic in the their opinions that they will believe anything they read or see on the Internet (or Fox TV or the National Enquirer) that supports their viewpoint, regardless of its veracity.
I am also "brilliant" enough to recognize that it is possible to make and edit movies and videos that can deceive the viewers, especially those willing to suspend belief in order to either enjoy the movie/film/video, or in this case in order to reinforce their predetermined outrage.
BTW, any of our Googling Bloodhounds determine if actual legal actions have been initiated against anybody as a result of the OP's quasi-legal shaming campaign against an individual with whom he has never met?
Well, I'm brilliant enough to be able to tell when a video is one continuous shot, unedited, with no jumps or cuts that could actually disguise the whole story, and where there are two such videos from completely different angles that show the same event. So basically, you're discrediting them on the basis of nothing other than it's on YouTube. The videos clearly show him getting out of the car where the bicyclist could not possibly have posed a threat, and striding right up to the cyclist to start a person-to-person confrontation. It is quite clear from the two videos that only one person actually took a swing at the other, and I defy you to identify where anything to the contrary could have been edited out or in.
And I have always qualified that the LE will have to prove the videos are genuine, but if they can, he'd be toast in court. Given the quality of the videos, I don't think it's a stretch to suggest this isn't going to be difficult for the prosecution.
All the lack of google results demonstrate is that this has not been picked up by the media so far--it's theoretically possible he could face Bar discipline, but fairly unlikely.