The video correlates with three other videos of the event. These videos were documented
by Storyful at the time, and could be found by searching YouTube using search terms identified earlier.
The first video25 was uploaded on the day of the shooting to an Ivory Coast-registered YouTube account which was created specifically to upload the video. There is no further activity
on the account to provide information regarding the source. The same wounded women are
filmed in the video, as is the distinctive square building in the background.
A second video26 was uploaded to another Ivory Coast-registered YouTube account on the
morning of March 4 at 09:06:37 GMT. The uploader describes it as “several women killed” at
the “RHDP demonstration yesterday,” meaning March 3.
None of these videos or corroborating photos exist before March 3, suggesting to a high
degree of certainty this was the date of the event.
Original uploader
The video itself was uploaded to YouTube on March 4, 2011. It‘s the earliest such video found
on YouTube. However, it‘s highly likely the video originated from a Facebook account or elsewhere and was scraped onto this YouTube account.
The YouTube account is registered in the United States and is linked to a defunct website,
onemendo.com. The account appeared to be operated by someone with connections to
Jamaican emigrants living in New York or New Jersey because the account contained promotional material for a local club, DanceHallReggae.com.
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