Thread by @Johnmcurtis

The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial - A Tale of Two Videos

Did the prosecution purposely SABOTAGE the defense?

A thread

Where did the original video file originate?

On August 25, 2020, Brandon Beamon used a drone to capture video of the riots and unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Beamon was working for a now dissolved company ‘UrbanAired’ which likely violated FAA laws that night.

Beamon is a BLM supporter that has a fairly extensive criminal record including || Use Of Dangerous Weapon | 2nd Degree Reckless Homicide to which he plead no contest in 2000.

Beamon lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was likely only in Kenosha for the riots.

Beamon used a DJI Mavic Mini - Serial number 1SFLH1G0AK01TC to capture video.

This serial was embedded in the metadata of the original video and other video files.

The Mavic Mini is capable of recording video at

2.7k: 2720 × 1530 at /25/30p
FHD: 1920 × 1080 at 25/30/50/60p

Shortly after the events involving Kyle Rittenhouse on August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the drone video was sold to the Tucker Carlson Show / Fox News and potions of the video were played on his show.

Based on arguments during the trial, sometime after this, Rittenhouse’s first attorney John Pierce, was given a portion of the video, although the video was in black and white.

This is according to Rittenhouse’s current attorney Mark Richards.

When and how did the prosecution get the video?

During the trial, ADA James Kraus, claimed that detective Martin Howard left the courtroom to go to the ADA office to meet a person who claimed to have evidence related to the trial.

This occurred on Thursday, November 4th during witness Jason Lackowski’s testimony while ADA Thomas Binger was questioning him, sometime before the first break of the day.

Detective Martin Howard’s sworn affidavit details obtaining the evidence from a black man of medium to large build who was wearing a face mask and refused to give his name. The unknown man airdropped the file from his iPhone phone to detective Howard’s work iPhone.

Detective Howard returned to the courtroom and text the file (presumably named [B68A8C11-D45E-4598-AA48-24D023F2C25B .mov] 1920x844 ratio 11.7mb) to ADA Kraus at 10:23 am 11/5. The prosecution examined the file during Lackowski’s testimony until the first break.

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During the break the prosecution shared details of the new video that they planned to admit as evidence with the defense and further stated that detective Howard would email the video to defense attorney Wisco at her request.

This is where things become a little complicated……

I do not believe detective Howard’s sworn affidavit is accurate. I don’t believe that he lied, I believe however that he did not recall the exact process in which he emailed the file to Atty Wisco, when the video compression occurred. I also do not believe it was intentional.

Technical difficulties and I accidentally deleted this tweet instead of an erroneous comment.

Apologies.

Please find video that was supposed to be here after explanation of EXIF data.

This is not correct.

Howard left the trial Friday, November 5th during Lackowski’s testimony.