Remember that Video Which the FBI Said they had of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Dropping a Black Backpack down Right Before it Exploded?

Turns Out it Doesn’t Exist

What do former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, an appeals court justice, several potential members of the Boston Marathon bombing jury and thousands of regular Americans have in common?

They all believe that they’ve seen a video of accused bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropping a deadly backpack behind victims at the marathon on April 15, 2013—a video his defense said “does NOT actually exist.”

In a pre-trial hearing yesterday, Tsarnaev defense attorney David Bruck argued that the April 18, 2013, press conference in which former Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers identified the brothers should be excluded from evidence. That, he argued, is because the FBI agent described the video footage that doesn’t really exist, which subsequently was used to convict Tsarnaev in the media.

Defense says DesLauriers described video of #Tsarnaev placing a backpack behind Martin Richard “THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST” @NECN

— Alysha Palumbo (@AlyshaNECN) March 2, 2015

http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/03/03/fbis-smoking-gun-video-boston-marathon-bombing-doesnt-exist/

You have not seen that Boston Marathon video

If you followed media coverage of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing — and it was hard not to follow it, if you were awake and in the United States – do you remember seeing the video in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two suspects, sets his backpack down on the pavement a few moments before one of the bombs goes off? If so, you’re in good company: Lots of people do, including at least one federal appeals court judge in Massachusetts and one potential juror in the Tsarnaev case.

But if you think you haven’t seen it, you are right. In fact, it may not exist at all.

The public first heard about the video from then-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on “Meet the Press” on April 21, two days after Tamerland Tsarnaev died following a shootout with police and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured. Host David Gregory posed this question: “Is there anything on the videotape that maybe the public hasn’t seen about his reaction that was particularly telling that moved the investigation along?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/03/you-have-not-seen-that-boston-marathon-video/