Michael Hastings Coroner Report

I agree. Below is an email someone sent me:

Excerpt:

There were just too many troubling inconsistencies. There were no skid marks. Local residents reported hearing one or more loud explosions.

The vehicle was engulfed in an extremely fierce torch-like inferno that some critics claimed was unlike a gasoline-fed fire — and more like the kind of blaze associated with burning thermite or plastic explosives.

The bomb scenario would certainly explain how the car’s engine came to be blasted out of the vehicle and wound up down the road, 100 feet from the flaming wreckage.

Furthermore, the damage to the car was inconsistent with a simple crash. There was a debris field that covered a good part of the block. Instead of splaying out around the palm tree, metal and plastic parts from the Mercedes were scattered down the roadway — a great distance past the point where the auto struck the tree.

The car’s front left wheel somehow wound up nearly 100 feet away from the wrecked car — on a sidewalk on the other side of the street. The car’s engine and transmission had been hurled into the sky and wound up 200 feet down the roadway.

And, inexplicably, the vehicle’s hood (which should have born the brunt of the head-on impact) could be seen resting near the far side of the palm, intact and uncrumpled. It appeared as though the hood had separated from the Mercedes before the impact and landed, relatively unscathed, alongside the tree.

The more one examines the video and next-day photos of the wrecked car, the more it appears that the vehicle was destroyed, not by a front-end impact but from a powerful explosion that occurred beneath the vehicle. The front of the car is missing and the roof is torn open like a sardine can. The rear of the car (which would not have been damaged in a front-end collision) also shows extensive damage.

One of the most disturbing photos was taken hours after accident. It shows a team of police gathered around the crime scene in full sunshine. The police are guarding a tarp draped over the vehicle. But Hastings’ charred body had been removed from the burned-out car hours. So what are the police hiding? The tarp is covering the front half of the car — effectively shielding it from view by the public and the press. If the tarp were removed, it would have revealed the extensive damage sustained by the Mercedes — the kind of horrific explosive mangling that could only be created by a bomb, not a palm.

The Mercedes is a well-built car. It is known for not exploding — even in high-speed crashes on Germany’s autobahn. In an odd piece of public relations, Mercedes-Benz officials withheld comment, choosing instead to defer to the LAPD.

There was another oddity about the crash scene. A small geyser of water could be seen near the burning car. At first, it was assumed the car had clipped a fire hydrant. But that would have caused a much higher plume of water. On closer inspection, the water could be seen springing from the ground near the cement caps of a water-access point. But the cement caps were undamaged. Something had apparently caused a portion of the buried waterlines to rupture underground.

What might cause such unusual damage? Only two explanations come to mind: (1) an earthquake or (2) a powerful blast violently shaking the ground.

Read article here:

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2013-08-09/article/41312?headline=On-the-Strange-Death-br-of-Michael-Hastings-br-Was-the-Reporter-Car-Hacked-or-Bombed—By-Gar-Smith