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aimed in the northbound direction and he sees that. So
on the videos you will see a police car come around the
corner pretty quick. He stops Mr. Minton. And when he
stops Mr. Minton you will see Mr. Minton on the video
says, “I told him I’m calling the police.” Which is
true, it was about fifteen seconds before that. Then he
says, “I told him, I want you to stay away from me. And
then he walks right into the sign.” I want you to look
at the videos carefully. You will be determining whether
he walked into that sign or not. I submit to you that he
did not. The sign was shoved into this face.

Basically, Mr. Minton is telling the
police officer seconds after the incident, when there is
no real time for reflection, basically it was an
accident. That was Mr. Minton’s statement, seconds after
this happened. I want you consider that during this
trial, also.

Officer Beaudette who was northbound on
Fort Harrison and stopped Mr. Minton gathered up the
videos at the scene, after listening to Mr. Minton’s
statement that Mr. Howd had walked into the video [sic],
he gathered three videos at the scene. The fourth one is
a surveillance camera on the building. He watched the
videos. After he watched the videos he arrested Mr.
Minton for battery.