My understanding is the guy in the video went straight to law enforcement as a witness before the video was released to the public.
Yes, he could be lying..but they have him.
They cannot ignore his account, so they are attempting to follow up on it.
The only folks who see racism in this are the people who seem to see racism everywhere. Chip, meet shoulder.
As intriguing as this story is, It does bring back reflections of the
Charles Stuart incident where he murdered his wife and stoked the fires of racism across the nation by claiming a Black man did it.
But if that false indictment of Black males wasn’t enough,
Susan Smith drove the indictment home when she said a Black man had jumped into her car and drove off with her two pre-adolescent boys. It sounded like something Blacks would do right? WRONG… she had murdered her own children by intentionally driving her car into a lake and letting them drown!
How many times has that scenario been repeated? One can only guess. However, we do know that false accusations of rape by White women against Black men were instrumental in the
utter destruction by
enraged White men of two prosperous Black towns in the early 20th Century.
Pondering the invidious tradition that still haunts us, the op is on point