Sullivan suggested McAbee is a terrorist.
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"So it appears clearly to this court that the defendant is pulling the officer back into the crowd of other terrorists," Sullivan said, according to the transcript.
After another hearing on Oct. 13, 2021, Sullivan reversed Frensely’s order and ruled that McAbee should not be released pending trial. Sullivan said he would issue a written ruling, which was released more than two months later on Dec. 21, 2021.
A break in McAbee’s case came when video investigator Gary McBride of Decatur, Texas, studied the bodycam footage shown in court, except with the audio track turned on. It painted a vastly different picture of what took place, McBride told The Epoch Times."The prosecutors did not play the audio of AW [Andrew Wyatt] and McAbee talking during this point," McBride said in a video he made about the evidence. "McAbee is trying to save AW. Prosecutors didn’t play that in court."
McBride said his analysis showed McAbee did not pull the officer down the stairs, but was swept backward and lost his balance, due to two protesters pulling on the officer’s legs. McAbee was standing over Wyatt at the time. As a result, McAbee fell on top of Wyatt and was over him for about 25 seconds.
While McAbee was on top of Wyatt, bystanders called him a traitor, ostensibly for helping the officer. When someone in the crowd tried to grab at Wyatt, McAbee shouted, "No!" and "Quit!"
"At that point, my husband just saw an officer down and an officer needing help, because the first thing he says, when he pops in around the tunnel before he gets around the rail is, ’Hey, you guys have a man down,’" Sarah McAbee said. "They literally did nothing to help that guy. So he’s the one who jumped into action."
McBride and Sarah McAbee said the audio track should have been disclosed to the defense as exculpatory evidence.
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If you listen to the audio, he says, ’Hey, I’m one of you. Let me know when you’re ready to get up. I’m going to help you up.’ And they get up together," Sarah McAbee said. "That’s not him assaulting anybody. It’s the same videos, they just wouldn’t play the audio in court, because the audio is so detrimental to their case."