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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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One minute into a report about the Michael Bryant case, Dwight Drummond allows a man to make statements as to what he saw.
He also allows him to not identify himself.

Here is the report

"I saw when he had fallen to the ground, picked up the bicycle, thrown it towards the vehicle, and run around the driver’s side to start an altercation with the driver," recalled one witness. "And the driver was scared, backed up, trying to get away from the situation and proceeded to head westbound on Bloor Street. The cyclist was holding on to the driver and the vehicle."

Drummond takes note that the witness claims Sheppard was holding on to the driver of the car, and asks him to confirm it.
The witness equivocates by prefacing his response with the words "it appeared from my vantage point that he was holding on to the driver and the vehicle."

The video clearly shows that Sheppard did not throw his bicycle at the car, so how reliable can this anonymous "witness" be about what he saw from his "vantage point"?