Body Camera Footage Post With a Date Mismatch
What This Image Shows
A screenshot of a post from an account shown as Matt Wallace, handle @MattWallace888, posted seventeen hours before capture. The video still shows an outdoor scene under clear sky: a man in a grey shirt and baseball cap pointing into the distance beside another person whose face is pixelated. A FIRST ON SCRIPPS NEWS graphic sits at upper left and body camera metadata at upper right.
The post reads: "New Police Footage Released of Charlie Kirk's Shooter! WHAT DO YOU NOTICE!?" The burned-in metadata reads: "2022-05-31 16:50:48 -0600, AXON BODY 3."
The date stamp is the thing to notice. It reads May 31, 2022, more than three years before the shooting, which means either the footage is from an unrelated incident, the camera clock was wrong, or the frame was mislabelled in the post. Body camera timestamps matter throughout this case, including the disputed rooftop bodycam material tracked separately here. See Cameras, Law Enforcement and Narrative.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Unfiled Backlog
- All photo evidence: Photos