More horrifying than interesting. LE moved the E side witnesses 2 times.
The 1st time was from outside AAR 1/AGR 6 to the entrance of AGR (S side of Whitestown):
18:59:54 Kuss reassures witnesses, "I’m just taking you to a ‘safe place’.”
19:03:44 Kuss asks Pearson, "Any idea where we can take them [6 witnesses]?” Pearson, “You can bring them up to my car” [grey sedan parked across the street from '21-'23 Hyundai Elantra].
While at this “safe place” across the street from the Elantra car bomb outside the “main big bldg” [AAR 6], Kuss tells the witnesses to move to the other side of the squad car where it is safer:
19:07:44 “We’re checking the bldg [AAR 6]. There could be explosives in the bldg. That’s why we want you on this side of the car."
Kuss is such a nice guy: he doesn’t want the witnesses to be anywhere near explosives or an explosion! However, in less than 2 minutes, Kuss walks straight to the car bomb for a walk & talk with the K9 Unit, keeping his body between them & the Elantra & preventing Kiko from getting too close. Then Kuss evacuates himself 75-90 yds away to set up a Trauma Recovery Site for victims of an explosion.
One more person needs to be by the Elantra: Det. Collins.
19:08:58
Vensel “Hey, I got Tyler here. He got on the roof ______. He’s a bit shaken up.
Pearson “I didn’t know he was shot at?”
Vensel “I don’t know if he was shot at but he was damn close. He’s coming down the right side of road now. Just go to LC [Pearson] Tyler.”
Pearson explained to the witnesses that he is bringing in some people [Collins & Wittinger] to take their statements. I get the feeling that the LC needed to be somewhere else, like dealing with the “fresh blood found in one of the bathrooms.” Convenient for him!
The witnesses are moved a 2nd time, this time directly next to the Elantra. They were told that there could be gunfire & that they’d be safer across Whitestown. Dave was so freaked out that he started running but Wittinger told him, “Hey, you don’t need to run, it’s OK.”
19:13:19
Giallorenzo “You want to move the witnesses across the street?”
Wittinger “Sure. Would you all walk across the street with me just to get further away from the bldg."
Yep, it was Giallorenzo himself who ushered the witnesses to the Elantra. Giallorenzo knew that he & Kiko didn’t clear that car just minutes before.
One could argue, “They were trying to keep the witnesses safe. They’re heroes!” I call BS. They were in the middle of a bomb scare having found a remote detonator in Patsy’s backpack. At that point they had cleared the bike backpack & didn’t know, according to the official narrative, where or if there were bombs elsewhere. So they chose to place the witnesses by an unknown, uncleared Elantra across from the AGR entrance!?
These poor people were already traumatized being on the S fence line during shots fired. They were told they needed to be moved to a safer place than by AAR 1 so they move them by AAR 6. Then Kuss tells them to stay behind the squad car to be safe from explosives. Then they move them across Whitestown to be safe from possible gunfire from windows. At this point Dave is running!
If they wanted them to be safe, why didn’t they take them somewhere that they knew there could be no gunshots or explosives? Why didn’t they take them to the Farm Fairgrounds (which they eventually did) rather than keep traumatizing them with mortal dangers?