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CNN's Tom Forman is here to walk us through what we're hearing from federal officials, but

also what the videos show, including the new videos.

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Because what they are saying and what the videos are showing are not always the same thing.

I want to start with the very first statement made by the Trump administration in the aftermath of the shooting.

It was a tweet by the Department of Homeland Security showing a firearm on what appears to be the seat of a car.

the tweet reads, an individual approach US Border Patrol officers with a 9 millimeter semi automatic handgun.

Seen here, you see the picture behind it there.

This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

Now we have this new angle of the video that's just been cleared by cnn and it shows the lead up to this deadly altercation.

This is what I want you to take a look at.

Take some time, though, and watch this together.

You see pretty out there in the middle of the street.

You start seeing him and he is at one point using his camera.

There he is right there and he's pointing to traffic, sort of waving traffic through.

At some moment here, you see that law enforcement approaches him and he backs away.

Then you're going to see one of these officers approach a woman near him and really forcefully shove her to the ground right there.

And Priddy starts rushing over toward her.

Now they're both getting pepper sprayed at this point.

He gets grabbed and he's taken over to the ground here.

I'll point out this is about 15 seconds from when officers turned to him.

He does not appear to have a weapon in his hand.

And then all of a sudden, you see one agent in the middle there.

One shot followed by, in our analysis, nine other shots.

Here we heard from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.

He was asked at what point Priddy brandished a weapon in all of this.

This is important because an important detail because concealed carry is legal.

And law enforcement analysts here on CNN have raised questions as to why the picture of this gun that DHS shared online was, was shown on the seat of a car and not in the scene where Priddy was shot.

If you watch all those videos carefully, you see a federal agent right there who appears to be removing a gun.

This is very critical to remember that piece of video you're seeing right there is happening about a second or maybe slightly less than a second before the shooting begins.

There will be a lot of questions here, but

that's the reason people say you have to have a truly impartial and fair investigation here.

Because if he removed the gun before all this shooting broke out, then why is this man now dead?

It's really quite a remarkable series of events all coming together here, but

almost all of them, Aaron, contradiction, the story that came out of the Trump administration early on today.

And let's go now to our senior law enforcement analyst, Andrew McCabe, also the former deputy director of the FBI.

So, Director McCabe, what do you see in all of this so far from the information that we have from the video you've watched, from the responses we've gotten from DHS and from Mr.

Well, I mean, obviously, Aaron, at the core of it, you have an unbelievable tragedy where it appears that a potentially unarmed person was essentially assassinated by horrible law enforcement tactics that dramatically escalated the situation.

But, you know, there are so many questions here at the absolute core of lethal force training in the FBI academy, in the academy at Glynco, Georgia, where DHS agents, ICE agents, border patrol folks go through, you are taught from the very beginning that if you are in, if you use your weapon, you have to be able to, after the fact, articulate exactly why you perceived an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.

And so the question now is, when are we going to hear that articulation?

What is the reason that these officers, or a single officer, we don't know how many people shot, believed they were in imminent threat of death by this person who was, by all, every video we've seen on the ground with anywhere from four to five officers on top of him at the same time.

Nowhere in these videos do you see a weapon in this man's hand.

And so while Commander Bevino's statement was very artfully written, yes, they encountered someone who had a gun.

It is not clear that that man ever presented the gun, brandished the gun pointed the gun at anyone, threatened to, you know, to harm any of these officers.

So what's the excuse for having to use lethal force here?

And in fact, you know, they were quick to post a picture of the gun which they removed from the crime scene.

They put in a car, they said, look at these extra magazines.

There was some deplorable act that he was prepared to commit, but

they've never actually even said that he did brandish it.

And obviously there's no video evidence that he did any such thing.

We hear all the whistles on that one video.

The whistles people do when they're warning of ice.

He was there trying to protect, it appears, a woman that they pushed over.

McCabe, I'm just curious though, if there is no investigation, which at this point doesn't appear that there are going to be any indications.

They are, they're saying case closed and sealed.

And they don't give access to the state for an investigation, which again, that would be surprising if they did.

They didn't do it with Renee Nicole Goode, then what happens here?

Just like nothing happened after the killing of Renee Goode, in fact.

Now we have a very common set of circumstances.

We know what the game plan is for the White House and dhs.

Immediately after the event, they go to the media and they put out a version of events that paints the victim as a domestic terrorist.

They then said Renee Goode's wife was also a domestic terrorist, which of course neither of them are.

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