Broken Monsters (38 page)

This investigator finds that there are still many inconclusive and disturbing aspects around the events that led up to the death of Clayton Broom and the shooting of Marcus Jones.

EPA examination of the building and blood tests have proved inconclusive on possible hallucinogenic toxins.

However, the witnesses' testimonies, interviewed separately, confirm that many of them experienced vivid and subjective hallucinations consistent with psychotropic drugs. Speculation about whether Broom was able to induce mass hypnosis or hysteria is irrelevant at this point. PTSD has also been put forward as a possible factor; all witnesses had seen one or more of Broom's victims.

The footage filmed by “citizen journalist” Jonathan Haim has been largely discounted as a reliable record of what transpired.

Cybercrimes concludes that the footage was doctored in-camera, using a more professional version of live-filtering effects software that is widely available. They have been unable to identify the exact software because the footage on the phone was deleted, even though there are multiple recordings of the live-stream online. Mr. Haim continues to deny any manipulation of the footage, which is shaky and dark and hard to discern.

Haim has confirmed that he purchased the crime-scene photographs used in his previous videos from Detective Michael Croff. An investigation against Detective Croff is pending.

The footage has helped to confirm that Detective Versado did warn Broom before shooting him the first time, in the arm (refer to audio on video footage at 41:56 and ballistics and ME reports), and that she was prone at the time of the shooting and under direct physical threat when she made the fatal head shot (refer to audio and video footage at 43:18 and ballistics and ME reports on bullet trajectory).

Apart from the mutilated body of Officer Marcus Jones, none of the other “art works” on the scene contained human remains. The autopsy reveals that Officer Jones died on Monday morning, from a combustion nail gun to the head, two days before Detective Versado discharged her weapon into the corpse while attempting to shoot Broom.

A cat belonging to Layla Stirling-Versado was recovered, alive, from the scene.

The psychologist's report indicates that Detective Versado was under extreme personal and professional duress when the shooting occurred.

The evidence that would have been brought to bear against Mr. Broom is very strong and likely would have led to a conviction (please refer to case notes attached), including, most compellingly, a clear fingerprint on the clay wrapped around the remains of Ms. Spinks, which has since been confirmed by forensics as his right thumbprint.

We have to consider the public perception of this case and Detroit's police force in general. There is little doubt in the public eye that Broom was guilty of the heinous crimes and that Detective Versado acted in good faith, even heroically.

We must also consider the public hysteria around the more gruesome aspects of the case.

I believe a definitive statement from the DPD, laying out the facts as set out in this report, will put a great deal of this hysteria to rest.

I hope this submission will assist Internal Affairs in making an informed and fair ruling.

It is this investigator's considered opinion that Detective Versado was justified in fatally shooting Clayton Broom under the circumstances described in these reports.

My recommendation is that she be commended for her actions and reinstated to her full command, after a mandatory period of counseling.

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Gal00t
2394 points 1 year ago

Best. Typo. Ever.

 [–] Jonno Haim
[S] 4841 points

If you knew how much I loved her, you'd know what a shitty question that is. She died right in front of me, remember? I miss Jen every single day. As soon as the documentary is wrapped up (the soundtrack uses a lot of her tracks, btw), I'm looking to launch a new Kickstarter to create the Jenefer Quillane Music Academy in Detroit. Maybe you'd like to chip in? ;)

But seriously, if you've seen the footage that was live-streamed, that has been cached, you'll know it's not fake and you'll know I'm not a prophet, I'm a disciple. All of you are. It lives on in all of us, everyone who has seen it. I'm the messenger.

[–] Jonno Haim [S]
4661 points

I called them out on it to their faces. They're scared. They're trying to hold on to the world they know. It's up to us to show them what lies beneath. And I'll get the word out wherever I can. To whoever will listen. You think I haven't seen the skit about me on The Daily Show? But I am NOT A JOKE and this is REAL.

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Jonno Haim [S]
2122 points

In that the Russian Mutant is a clever bit of visual effects work and the Fleischer Footage really happened? I'm going to say no. It's not like that at all. To all the skeptics out there, cuz this tedious question just keeps coming up please show me the video filters that can create those effects live! I've had various visual effects experts in Los Angeles and in France analyze the footage independently of the police's so-called experts and they'll corroborate that it's the real thing, unadulterated, undoctored. This is NOT Internet urban legend shit. This is not spooky noodle!

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Jonno Haim [S] 3487 points

I'm under a court order that prevents me from naming them or talking to them. Which says a lot, I think.

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Jonno Haim
[S] 3655 points

Yes. One of them is a minor. You can see a glimpse of her at 37:02-37:11 in the footage. She's also the one who deleted the footage, making it impossible for me to prove everything.

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Jonno Haim
[S] 7454 points

I don't get this obsession with her. I know you want to romanticize her and turn her into this big hero like the Hunger Games or whatever, but she was a dumb teenager who wandered in by accident. It's a miracle she didn't get everyone killed.

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Jonno Haim
[S] 3257 points

The guy who beat me unconscious with a chair? You think I should thank him for carrying me out of a burning building? I don't know. He declined to be interviewed for my documentary, which you can help fund, by the way, assuming the city of Detroit doesn't try to sue me again.

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Jonno Haim
[S] 9383 points

It is. The same way it's always been against people who dare to speak the truth against power. Ask Galileo or Aristotle or Martin Luther King. I'm a heretic and they will go to any lengths to stop me.

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Jonno Haim
[S] 9264 points

I'm just saying if I suddenly die in a car crash or a freak cinema shooting, ask questions. A LOT of questions.

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Jonno Haim
[S]
6868 points

Yes. It was all real. It lives in me now. If you've seen it, there's a splinter of it in you too. We can change the world. You just have to open the door.