I think this is what happened: unbeknownst to me and most people, Jason Goodman filed a FOIA request and got back a thumb drive. The drive had a bunch of images that we already knew about, and also various document formats like PDF, Powerpoint, and some other Microsoft format, I forget. Those documents were improperly redacted, i.e., the redactions were removable.
Goodman realized this, and seemed to want to release the documents to the public unredacted, but I think he was worried about getting banned for doxxing, so he created his own PDF of the main document with some redactions left in, stuff we didn’t really need to know, like people’s cell phone numbers. Then, that document somehow made its way here, where I saw it.
I immediately started studying it and noticed something was off about it. I used the tool pdfinfo to compare it to the redacted original, and I saw it was created far too recently by the guy who said he had received it from the police, so I immediately told everyone it seemed like a forgery, because I had no way of knowing the backstory.
In the meantime, I obtained the zip of the thumb drive from Goodman’s site, and saw the improperly redacted documents, and figured out what had probably happened. I guess Goodman got skittish about having that on his site, so he took it off his own site, but it’s on mine.
I think this was the first sighting on this forum.
I’m checking it out, thanks.