A Man Carried From The Plaza By Officers, Minutes After
What This Video Is
A 26 second handheld phone capture, one continuous unedited take, filed in the investigation archive under the name "Blood on Hands Black Shirt 1". It has no titles, no captions and no annotation. It is raw bystander footage of an event happening in front of the camera, and it is one of two short clips held under that same name.
A note about the filing is owed to the reader up front. The name implies footage of a person in a black shirt with blood on their hands, and the stored visual description of this clip records nothing of the sort -- no blood, no black shirt, no subject matching that label anywhere in the 26 seconds. Either the file was named for something a viewer believed they saw at a resolution the description engine could not resolve, or the name was carried over from a different clip. The page describes what is on file and flags the mismatch rather than papering over it.
What Is Said
There is no narration. The audio is a wall of overlapping crowd noise, footsteps and shouting, and the transcription produced from it is fragmentary and unreliable -- it recovers a repeated "no, no, no", a stray "shot him, but I don't know", and two proper names it almost certainly mis-heard.
One line does come through clearly on the description engine's pass: a man filming nearby repeatedly yells a nickname at the detained man, apparently believing he recognises him as an internet personality. That is worth recording only because it shows the crowd around the camera did not know who they were looking at and were guessing out loud, in real time, on video. Nothing in the audio is testimony about the shooting.
What The Footage Shows
An older, stocky, bald man in a blue polo shirt, white shorts and dark knee socks is being carried across a concrete plaza by two officers in black tactical uniforms and one civilian in a grey shirt and cap. His legs drag. He appears distressed. A dense crowd moves alongside, most of them filming on phones; one man runs past with a professional camera rig. The camera pans hard right at about 0:07 onto a bystander in a white long-sleeved shirt and a blue baseball cap who is filming and shouting, pans back left through the crowd, and from 0:18 tracks the officers carrying the man past a white utility cart toward a black police SUV marked 104, parked beside a brick and concrete building. Onlookers watch from a raised patio and staircase behind. Harsh overhead sun; a "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" cap is visible on a bystander at 0:22.
The stored description guesses at a Colorado location, which is not supportable: the campus architecture, the plaza with its raised patio and staircase, and the crowd all match the Utah Valley University plaza, and the clip is filed with material from that afternoon. Readers who have followed the case will recognise the sequence, because an older man was taken from that plaza by officers within minutes of the shot, in front of a crowd of phones, and the site treats that detention separately. This page does not identify the man carried here and makes no claim about him, why he was carried, or what he was or was not doing. He is shown being removed by officers, and that is all that can be said from 26 seconds of shaky video.
How It Connects
- Distraction people covers the figures who drew attention away from the stage in the minutes after the shot.
- Patsies and distraction actors is the analytical treatment of the same question.
- Utah Valley University and UVU maps place the plaza, the raised patio and the vehicle access route.
- Witnesses collects the accounts this footage can be checked against.
- The second clip filed under the same name is the other half of this pair.