[img]2403|right|Mayor Eric Garcetti||no_popup[/img]Only Los Angeles Times’s editors, reporters and publisher have seen the unedited video version of the Mayor's auto accident, which “accidentally” was caught by the Times’s surveillance camera on the northwest corner of 2nd and Spring.
The version released online by the Times is heavily edited. Even that version was strong enough to catch LAPD in a flatfooted lie.
Immediately after the unfortunate occurrence, the LAPD spokesman on camera told the press unequivocally that the injured pedestrian, Ms. Juliet Nicolas, 60, was to blame for the accident because she was jaywalking when she started crossing the street between two parked cars.
When the Times released the security video soon afterward, clearly showing the woman was struck in the crosswalk, LAPD quickly changed its story.
Now LAPD alleges that the lady victim in question “appears” to have been crossing against the light.
Notice the weasel word used here, “appears.” No hard evidence is extant to back up this unwarranted LAPD allegation that obviously is meant to protect the LAPD driver at the wheel when Ms. Nicolas got hit and subsequently hospitalized.
When the victim eventually has her day in court, she will testify that the light was in her favor when she stepped off the curb while Mayor Garcetti's cop driver undoubtedly will testify contradicting her, alleging that the traffic light was red when she entered the crosswalk.
Since there is no way of verifying either of these conflicting stories, the jury will be left to decide whom to believe and how much to award the injured party for pain and suffering after she was hit by a cop at the steering wheel.
Same Crowd?
Remember that the members of this future jury will be selected from the same Los Angeles jury pool that acquitted O.J. Simpson awhile back.
That's why City Atty. Mike Feuer is confidentially advising the Mayor and City Council to settle quickly with the victim's lawyer for as much as a cool million to avoid an embarrassingly nasty front page trial quite sure to wind up giving Mayor Garcetti a big black eye in the news media!
The Times’s unedited video, in addition, shows a small truck stopped in the crosswalk at the time of the accident with Mr. Garcetti's car passing by this truck, also according to the Times’s print account of the Mayor's car accident by reporters Jack Leonard and David Zahnhiser.
Has this truck's eyewitness driver been identified and questioned by either the news media or the police?
The same Times article states that someone got out of the back door of the Mayor's car? Who? The LAPD refused to answer this question from the press. Hint: Mr. Garcetti was alone in the backseat.
Who Is Acting Guilty?
Isn't the LAPD acting like the guilty party here?
Although he wasn't the driver, Mayor Garcetti, by getting out of his car after the accident and interacting with the victim on the ground who had been hit by his car made himself inexorably part of the scene of the accident.
That means Eric, as a percipient witness, can be deposed by the victim's counsel and subpoenaed to testify at the public trial. Ouch.
The Times’s security camera shows the Mayor's car turning right on 2nd Street after striking the victim and quickly stopping on Spring Street.
The LAPD driver and the Mayor got out of the Mayor's official car. Then both returned and drove off after only “two minutes” of elapsed time at the scene of the accident, according to the published story of the Times reporter who has viewed the unexpurgated version of the accident.
As a witness to the accident in the car that struck the victim, the Mayor should have been detained by the LAPD at the scene of the accident and asked a long series of pertinent questions by the officers who had arrived on the scene in a squad car quite soon after the accident happened, again as seen on the Times’s security video.
This LAPD routine questioning of the Mayor at the scene of this controversial auto accident, which did not take place, would have unquestionably taken considerably more time than a mere two minutes.
Has the Mayor subsequently been questioned elsewhere by LAPD regarding this violent chain of events? We know from the Times’s news account that the LAPD driver of the car that Ms. Nicolas at 2nd and Spring returned to the scene of the accident after dropping off the Mayor at City Hall.
What was the speed of the Mayor's car when it struck Ms. Nicolas?
Did the driver of the vehicle enjoy special privileges because he was an LAPD officer assigned to Mayor Garcetti's bodyguard detail?
Mr. Garcetti refuses to answer questions about the accident, saying only that he wasn't paying attention at the moment of impact when his car struck the senior citizen.
Nevertheless, questions remain for Mr. Garcetti to answer….
Such as:
• Mr. Mayor, has the victim been intimidated by LAPD and cautioned not to speak to the news media since she left the hospital? (Don't forget that her blood stains were in the crosswalk, as seen on TV news coverage.)
• Mr. Mayor, what did you say when you got out of your car, walked over to and addressed the injured party who was lying on the roadway?
• Mr. Mayor, why did you leave the scene of the accident so quickly? Were you told to leave by LAPD? Did you decide to obey LAPD orders unquestioningly?
(The Times’s reporters, with unlimited access to the security camera's coverage timed your
stay at the scene of the accident at a brief “two minutes.” This fact also appears in the relevant Times news story.)
• Mr. Mayor, why the hurry?
• Mr. Mayor, is there some kind of peculiar coverup going on here?
More to come at this website.
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