The order of events matters. This page presents a short excerpt and consecutive still frames from a publicly circulated body-camera recording.
THE RECORDED SEQUENCE
At the camera-overlay time 12:10:28 a.m., the pistol flash is visible while the donkey is oriented toward the other officer. The next frame retains that orientation; the turn away occurs in subsequent frames.
These are observations of the displayed sequence. The October 7 brief describes the same order at Document 9-1, pages 4 and 13–14 (PDF, opens in a new tab).
Compare the consecutive frames
THE RECORDING DECLARATION
Hayley Loyd, the department’s evidence/certification manager, identifies the filed Exhibit A as a 6-minute-35-second recording and states that the exported file’s SHA-256 hash matches the stored original. She also states that the export was not edited, altered, enhanced, or shortened.
Paragraph 8 explains that activation at 12:10:40 a.m. retained the preceding thirty seconds of video without audio. That accounts for the video-only opening described in the filing.
Source: Declaration of Hayley Loyd · Document 9-5, paragraphs 4–8 (PDF, opens in a new tab).
Excerpt source: the publicly circulated 55-second copy. The still frames are unchanged exports from that copy. The complete, 6-minute-35-second filed Exhibit A is identified separately in the linked declaration.
THE DEFENSE’S DESCRIPTION
The defense emphasizes the darkness, the distance closing on a fellow officer, and the absence of a barrier between that officer and the animal. Its description of those circumstances appears at Document 9-1, pages 13–16 (PDF, opens in a new tab).
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