Is it possible to find the weather forecast in Kandiyohi County on the exact date and time of arrest? Weather patterns could help match the outside environment to the photos.
Unfortunate to say but we don't have a clear view to the sky so a lot of "he will not divide us" shit can't apply here. We can't tell the time transition without clouds.
The seeming overcast in photos from the east side of the house not matching the sunny conditions that day is still too blurry to be conclusive, but a couple things about the sunroom photo on the west side of the house don't quite add up:
First, considering how there were
at least nine KCSO officers and one MHP officer on scene, Nick
described a whole "line of cop cars" passing him on the way to the raid, two more CPS workers and their vehicle(s) were brought to the scene within about an hour, and the Rekietas and April had at least 4 more vehicles that typically aren't
all parked in the three garage stalls, you'd think that driveway would have been
packed with vehicles, not to mention all the people that had been brought outside and all the personnel that were talking to them. Yet somehow, despite the sunroom photo's view through the window
and the reflection on the TV showing quite a bit of the driveway area, it looks like a ghost town out there other than the headlight of a single truck? It would be very interesting to know
@Tiki Bar Man 2's and Mama K's recollections of where all these vehicles and people were situated in relation to this layout:
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Secondly, while the shadows on the east side of the house look roughly consistent with the sun's position around 9:11 to 10:30 in May, the sunroom photo is a bit of an oddity, arguably more consistent with roughly early evening sometime in the following week, or possibly late afternoon if it relates to CPS visits sometime closer to solstice on June 20th:
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they're scheming on how to try and conclusively prove that the images are not from the day of the bodycam footage.
Wow, Nick, that was great! You just handed The Hardship the argument that you have waived privacy on a silver platter. Before this he had to rely on Barnes-Walker's fuckup in the motion for a Franks hearing where he quoted from and referred to the body cam footage. And he had to overcome the Barnes-Walker withdrawing the offered exhibits. While The Hardship could probably overcome that, it would be a lot of work.
But now? You gave him a free argument because you just couldn't shut the fuck up.
Not only does this unforced error hand over a waiver argument bolstering Plan A of getting at the court-filed exhibits
and Plan B of getting all nine bodycams' footage to dispel widespread false rumors now exacerbated by intense public interest in Nick's misleading photos, it also hands over
Plan C on a silver platter should the need arise: there are now two people with a viable defamation claim against him for alleging that they lied in the bodycam notes, there's a third person with a viable defamation claim against him for alleging payment of others to lie in their bodycam notes, and if any one of the three were to be willing to file suit thanks to all the crowdfunding that could surely be brought to bear, then it would be a trivial matter for their attorney to issue a subpoena to the Sheriff's office compelling production of complete copies of the bodycam footage that is indisputably relevant to proving why Nick knew full well that his defamatory allegations last night were false.
Obviously his attorney would fight tooth and nail for a protective order to keep those discovery materials under wraps for as long as humanly possible, but that has a definite time horizon if the plaintiff simply rejects any settlement offers, rejects any final
Rule 68 offer of judgment, and shoves the whole damned thing through trial until the bodycam exhibits are unambiguously presented as evidence. Once they're presented as evidence (again) they automatically become public (again), and the Barneswalker wouldn't have any way to walk it back
that time around.
