minneapolis shooting minneapolis shooting you said user mr granger was correct that we cannot use eye witness testimony as a declaration of fact you state that you are simply using the video as a primary source but that is not what you wrote in the article you did not say that the video shows someone claiming to be a member of the group and claiming that such and such happened you simply inserted the person's statement as facts meters talk while i initially referred to the video as being a primary source i later clarified that statement to recognize that once the video was placed on youtube youtube being analogous to a magazine or newspaper it became in that form a secondary source as such i can quote from that video without it being called us ing eye witness testimony as a declaration of fact besides it wasn't testimony it was not given under oath but it was given before a camera and the resulting video was placed on youtube and thus in that form it was a secondary source go back and re read what i subsequently wrote i refer to this later