It looks like CNN might catch a break with their gunshot audio. Erik Wemple from the Washington Post talked with Glide, the video texting service that was used to record the audio, and they’ve verified the timing of the gunshot audio. That being said, they obviously can’t vouch for what was recorded on the audio. Matching that to the gunshots fired by Officer Wilson will require the FBI:
The video texting service Glide has verified the recording played by CNN this week of the purported shots in the Ferguson, Mo., killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. In an e-mail to the Erik Wemple Blog, Glide head of communications Chaim Haas reports:
Because Glide is the only messaging application using streaming video technology, each message is simultaneously recorded and transmitted, so the exact time can be verified to the second. In this case, the video in question was created at 12:02:14 PM CDT on Saturday, August 9th.
Glide has also posted a note on its Web site. In a brief chat with the Erik Wemple Blog, Haas said, “The question we are being asked is is this authentic and the answer is absolutely.” Notification to the FBI, said Haas, “is taking place.”