But when he asked a policewoman if he could move past a phalanx of officers in order to get to his car, he says all Hell broke loose."...that's when he started cussing, pushing, flinging hands around and shouting, "I know my rights."
Just let your imagination run a little to get the full picture of what really went down.
Exactly -
I also watched the 'recovered video' in question -
Raging Miami Queen metioned that the quality of the recovered video is 'choppy' and all the points where there is a stutter are insignificant - except the part where he engaged the officer in question - by some unlucky coincidence - the action that led to his arrest has vanished.
Apparently, RIM is assuming that most people have never used Photorec to recover lost data. and apparently, RIM is assuming that most people don't know that data is written sequentially to flash media.
What does that mean ?
It means that the video was the last thing shot before the SDRam card was 'deleted by the officers' - so, if one takes no further pictures using the flash media after deletion, 100% of that video is recoverable. Also, since data is stored sequentially on the card, it is also likely that there was still more room after the video was shot to take at least a few photos, and still be able to get a 100% recovery. (to explain - lets say there are 100 places to store something on the device, and the video filled slots 26 to 89, after deleting the data, the card would still write new data starting with block 90, continuing to 100, then it would start looking for empty space once it cycled back to slot 1) - The exception to this would be if the card was formatted, then there would be no chance to recover anything.
I know this because along with building and repairing PCs on the side, I make a good amount of money recovering lost data from cameras, cellphones, and even damaged hard disks.
