The Red Pump Kitchen's Surveillance Camera

In the preliminary hearing of James Fields conducted on December 14, 2017, the case agent Detective Young testified that the movement of vehicles on Fourth Street was filmed by a surveillance camera on the Red Pump Kitchen (RPK) restaurant, which is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Fourth Street and Main Street. While the video is being shown to the court, Young describes the camera's view in the following passage:

This is the silver Dodge Challenger that Fields was driving. And as you can see, he proceeds south on Fourth Street onto the crossover, and many witnesses said he then made his way to the 100 block of Fourth Street SE, which is where he stopped.

The camera's view includes the part of Fourth Street, but does not include the part of Fourth Street that enters into the 100 block. For the latter part, Young had to depend on eyewitnesses.

Below are some photographs of the building's front.

My guess is that the camera is mounted inside the restaurant and looks out the window that is seen in the third photograph. The camera's main purpose is to film people approaching and entering the restaurant.

I imagine that the camera's view is something like the following.

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The RPK video showed Fields' car twice (pages 28-31) :

1) driving south when the camera's clock showed 13:52:56

2) backing up north when the camera's clock showed 13:54:06

The camera's clock ran "approximately" 13 minutes fast (page 29, line 6). If the clock ran precisely 13:00 minutes fast, then the camera's clock times are corrected as follows.

1) driving south at 13:39:56

2) backing up north at 13:41:06

The backup shown in this video was Fields' backup after he had driven into the crowd, which he had done between 13:40 and 13:41.

Keep in mind that the discrepancy between the RPK camera's clock and real time is only approximately 13 minutes.

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Young testified:

At one point it [Fields' car] was idling near the crossover on Fourth Street, and this is confirmed through video.

(Page 20, lines 15-17).

If I am correct about the RPK camera's view, then that camera was not the camera that confirmed that idling.

I assume that this particular confirmatory video was made by some pedestrian.

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Young summarized his evidence sources in the below passage:

There were several sources. From ...

* open-source videos, i.e., Facebook, YouTube,

* as well as private-business surveillance camera footage,

* officers' body-worn cameras

* and speaking to several victims and  many witnesses, both at the intersection of Fourth and Water, as well as the intersection of Fourth and Market Street during the incident.

(Page 13, lines 18 - 24; reformatted)

The only private-business surveillance camera that Young mentioned in his testimony was the RPK camera.

Many videos made by pedestrians were posted on Facebook and YouTube, and I suppose that one of those videos happened to show Fields' car idling somewhere on Fourth Street.

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In the above passage, Young mentioned the importance of witnesses at two intersections:

1) Fourth and Water

2) Fourth and Market

He does not mention witnesses at the intersection of Fourth and Main.

Therefore I speculate that the video confirming that Fields idled his car near the crossover might have been made by a person standing at the intersection of Fourth and Market and filming intermittently southward toward Main Street.

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Correction on March 3, 2018

At about 5:38 in the following video, SonofNewo shows where the RPK camera was mounted.