It can surely tell part of the story and perhaps the most important part. It can also be misleading, if you don't consider other context of the event. It's not the same thing but recall what the different video shots can show in a football game, where a change in view can be absolute in showing the truth or be absolutely confusing.
Gabrielle Rae (r.), held a photo of Oscar Grant while attending a BART board of directors meeting in Oakland, Calif. on Jan.
8.
Noah Berger/AP
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BART officials stood next to closed-off stalls leading to trains during a protest of the shooting death of Oscar Grant at
the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Grant was shot and killed by a police officer after an altercation on the
platform on New Year's Day.
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
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In video age, a rush to judgment?
Cellphone videos of a police killing in Oakland, Calif., spark outrage.
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