07-19-2024, 05:09 PM
(07-19-2024, 01:23 PM)more1thanany1 Wrote: Ok, if that video wasn't enough, here is another that refutes the water tower theories. You are mistaking a shadow for a person.
https://rumble.com/v56v9r9-alternate-ang...in-bu.html
I'm not so sure. Sure looks like a person to me. The alleged 'shadow' doesn't appear until seconds after the first shot is fired. Almost like someone was maybe behind the thing on top of the water tower, and then after the first shots were fired they came out from hiding. I would actually be surprised if there wasn't a counter-sniper at this location; it's the highest point in the area. It's not a particularly good position to shoot at someone at the podium, but it's a great place to return fire from if you're a counter-sniper.
Another poster mentioned some of the golden rules of snipers, one of them being never to silhouette yourself against a lighter backdrop and this is true, but in the case of a counter-sniper they wouldn't be particularly worried about this. Yes, it's not ideal, but the more important role is to be able to return fire over a wide area which the water tower provides.
Could it have been an accomplice? I suppose, but there would have been better places for an accomplice...unless, as some have noted, the accomplice's role was to take out the shooter (because dead men can tell no lies).
I don't know, but it sure looks like something stepped out from behind that cupola or whatever it is at the top of the water tower almost immediately after the first shots were fired. If it were a shadow, I would think it would have been there the entire time. The height of the tower doesn't lend itself to quickly changing shadows.
Perhaps we can agree that the person on the tower was a counter-sniper, and the remaining question then would become...WHO were they 'counter-sniping'???