Based on video evidence and witness testimony.

What a dramatically different picture of events than what has been presented by the national media and those on this board.

Miles should walk free. Jamea Harris’ boyfriend is a thugged out piece of shite who needs to rot in jail, and all of you owe Brandon Miller an apology.

I have provided a few highlights, but the whole lengthy article is linked below.

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Indeed, Bradley told investigators that Miles had been a calming presence when things got tense after Davis could be seen on video dancing in the street near the black Jeep that carried Harris, her boyfriend Cedric Johnson and her first cousin Asia Humphrey.

And it was during these few moments that tempers reportedly ran hot, with Miles telling investigators that he saw a gun passed from Harris to Johnson, who was sitting in the back seat of the Jeep.

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… Darius Miles' behavior on the surveillance video shows him trying to deescalate the situation and get his friends away from the Jeep. To their credit, video evidence viewed by Tuscaloosa Patch seems to corroborate such claims, as Miles could be seen doubling back and urging Davis to leave the area.

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Indeed, around 3-4 minutes before the shooting, video evidence at approximately 1:41 a.m. shows the Jeep pulling into the parking lot of Preston Place Apartments off of Grace Street. The driver, Johnson, then turns the vehicle's hazard lights on before a red car comes into the parking lot.

This prompted Johnson to get out of the Jeep and go to the driver's window of the red car.

While what was discussed is not known at this time, his gestures are animated and he appears to be agitated, before walking back to the Jeep and turning out onto Grace Street. This was not before he cut off the headlights of the Jeep.

It was shown during the preliminary hearing for Davis and Miles that after Johnson walked back to the Jeep, an individual gets something out the trunk of the red car before turning out of the parking lot to follow the Jeep.

When asked by investigators why they had initially stopped and turned on the Jeep's hazard lights, Johnson said it was because he was from Birmingham and they had been lost.

The defense, however, pointed out that Asia Humphrey — the other woman in the Jeep who testified during the preliminary hearing — was a junior at the University of Alabama at the time of the shooting, along with mentioning the different means of way-finding such as a GPS on one's phone.

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Davis walked away from the vehicle and Miles was recorded walking back to his girlfriend, urging her around the side of a nearby building to where her vehicle was parked after the fight she had been involved in.

Miles is then seen walking up to Jaden Bradley's vehicle, opening the door and shutting it, before walking to Miller's vehicle and doing the same thing. Then, the Jeep, still with its lights off, pulls in behind Miller's car.

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A short time later, Miles called 911 from University Downs apartments to report that his friend had been shot.

This is also where David Miles does raise an interesting point, arguing on the podcast that "I don’t understand how it's physically possible for you to walk up on [a] vehicle, shoot [I.E. Jamea Harris] first, [Johnson] not get shot, but you can return fire and hit him [twice] if you didn’t already have your gun in position to fire. It’s just physically impossible."

This post was edited on 3/17/23 at 12:30 pm