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Evidence Library

DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT.

The public library includes privacy-redacted records, agency-redacted Benally video segments, WatchGuard audit material, DA records, IPRA correspondence, command-review records, the DPS response, HB 87 correspondence, timestamp aids, and provenance files.

Privacy first: identifying information about the female passenger and bus driver is removed. Unreviewed audio and complete-playback files are withheld until names, voices, and non-official faces are privacy-safe.

START WITH THE VERIFIED INDEX

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Verified Evidence Index

Source-first map of the current evidence set.

VERIFY

Provenance + SHA-256

Classification, source note, file size, and integrity hash for the verified package.

READ

Provenance Audit

Explains what was verified, segregated, or excluded from the evidence wall.

PRIMARY / SOURCE RECORDS

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MCSO Investigative Report

Privacy-redacted public copy of the MCSO PDF attachment received August 14, 2026.

WATCH

Bittony Bodycam

Complete playback copy is externally linked. Timestamp guide and transcript are embedded here.

CAD thumbnail
READ / LISTEN

CAD + 911 / Dispatch

Original CAD, preserved dispatch archive, extracted WAV, and CDR track export.

Frame from Benally recording
WATCH

Benally Recordings + Audit

Two MCSO-produced recordings and the WatchGuard audit log.

READ / LISTEN

DA Referral + Status

Produced review/log record, chronology reproduction, and the recorded DA call.

READ

IPRA / Records History

Fifteen-exhibit correspondence compilation documenting the records trail.

ORIGINAL AUDIO

THE 911 / DISPATCH RECORD HAS A VOICE.

The site includes the extracted 911/dispatch WAV and the CDR track export from the preserved dispatch archive.

LISTEN IN CONTEXT →
Waveform generated from the 911 audio

COMMAND / STATE / LEGISLATIVE RECORDS

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Maiorano Command Review

August 21 reproduction of the command-review statement.

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DPS State Oversight Response

August 24 response concerning the absence of an appellate state review venue for this type of challenge.

READ

HB 87 Legislative Responses

August 24 responses from Rep. Dayan Hochman-Vigil and Sen. Peter Wirth.

EVIDENCE TOPICS

Language / Translator

Translator request, limited-English statements, and documented comprehension problems.

OPEN →

Six “Touching” Moments

Full timestamp block, followed by the first buttocks-specific formulation at 28:31.

OPEN →

Ten Alternative Explanations

Full timestamped block showing what was supplied, reinforced, reintroduced, rejected, or unsupported.

OPEN →

Nine Reassurances

Full timestamped sequence, including the five-second 34:47 → 34:52 contrast.

OPEN →

Money / Fraud Discussion

Financial-motive speculation and the insurance-fraud analogy.

OPEN →

Report vs. Bodycam

What the recording preserved versus what the written narrative says.

OPEN →

THE RECEIPTS: 6 / 10 / 9

When these counts are used on this site, the timestamped record stays with them.

6 TIMES THE ALLEGATION BECAME JUST “TOUCHING”

Bittony already knew the female passenger had reported multiple instances of touching of her butt and private area.

20:12
“She said that you were touching her.”
20:18
“With your hand. Touching her?”
21:52
“Why would she say you were touching her?”
25:32
“You didn’t touch her? Maybe you were sleeping.”
27:20
“The female is saying that he was touching her.”
27:27
“Why does that lady say he’s touching her?”
28:31 — “But the girl was saying that he was touching her butt.”
This is the first identified buttocks-specific description. The full allegation involving both her butt and private area still is not clearly presented to Shubham on the available recording.

10 INNOCENT-EXPLANATION MOMENTS

1. 18:19
“You don’t know? You were sleeping, maybe?”
Sleep explanation supplied by Bittony.
2. 21:20
“She was moving all over the place?”
Movement explanation supplied by Bittony.
3. 21:38
“She’s just moving around all over?”
Movement explanation reinforced by Bittony.
4. 21:44
“Does she get in your space, in your seat?”
Shubham: “No. I’m sitting this in my area only.”
Seat-space explanation supplied by Bittony. Rejected by Shubham.
5. 22:14
“Maybe your bag?”
Shubham indicates his bag was positioned in front of his seat.
Bag explanation supplied by Bittony.
6. 25:32
“You didn’t touch her? Maybe you were sleeping.”
Sleep explanation reintroduced by Bittony.
7. 25:40
“Maybe you were sleeping and your hand like this?”
Bittony physically demonstrates the accidental hand movement he is suggesting.
Shubham: “No, no, no.”
Accidental-contact explanation supplied and demonstrated by Bittony. Rejected by Shubham.
8. 28:38
“She kept moving around.”
Movement explanation reintroduced by Bittony.
9. 29:10
“When she was moving around, did she move into his space?”
Seat-space explanation supplied by Bittony.
The civilian assisting with translation responds: “He just listen to music.”
That response does not support Bittony’s suggestion that she moved into Shubham’s space.
10. 29:31
Bittony asks again: “Did she move into his space?”
The civilian assisting with translation, not Shubham, initially answers: “Yeah.”
Bittony immediately repeats the proposition.
The subsequent response contains:
“No.”
“Only in her space.”
“her seat.”
The “Yeah” did not come from Shubham. The seat-space explanation originated with Bittony, not from an unsolicited account by Shubham.
WHY IT MATTERS
The issue is not that an investigator considered innocent possibilities. It is who supplied those possibilities, when they were supplied, and what happened when Shubham rejected or failed to support them.

9 REASSURANCES

22:43
“It doesn’t mean you’re going to jail with me.”
31:17
“So he’s not going to be arrested or anything like that.”
31:52
“He’s not going to be arrested. It’s just I’m going to do a report.”
34:47
“He’s not in trouble with me.”
34:47
“You’re not going to go to jail.”
36:34
“Then it’s nothing.”
36:46
“Just don’t think about it too much.”
41:01
“It’s okay, man. You’re going to be okay.”
41:12
“Yeah. It’s unfortunate, but you’ll be fine.”
FIVE SECONDS APART
34:47 — “You’re not going to go to jail.”
34:52 — “I have to gather all the evidence to put it together into a report.”
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