you are so right…
he also misspells hights instead of heights, gravaty instead of gravity, etc, etc…
but anyhow, given the following images, I have a question…
we know that
- the SWAT officer fired the 9th shot towards crooks
- angle between the line of fire of that SWAT officer to crooks was about 12 degrees different to the line of fire of crooks towards Trump, so it was not very different from the angle he was shooting from (provided the assumption he fired some shots towards the rally area)
- the blood trail in the 20th rib on the roof of AGR building 6 is extensive and consistent with a serious blood loss
the question I have is the following: if crooks got shot by the SWAT officer, and the stock of his DPMS A-15 got damaged as shown in the photo, wouldn’t we expect more damage to crooks’ cheek and chin area?
under the assumption that crooks fired the 5 rapid fire shots, there was about 1 second between the last shot fired from the AGR site to the rally site and the 9th shot, so crooks may have relaxed a bit and distanced his cheek/chin from the stock, but still:
- if he relaxed and increased the distance between the shoulder part of the stock and his chin, and the SWAT officer blew away that part of the rifle’s stock, crooks may have been left relatively undamaged after that 9th shot, which means he did not engage in any other activity for the subsequent 9-10 seconds until the 10th shot finished him off
- if he did not relax, and that part of the stock got shot off, I would think the bottom half of crooks’ mouth/chin would have been taken away with the 9th bullet…
I would have thought that
- if the SWAT officer injured crooks without killing him, he would have a head/chest injury through which he would have bled enough to explain the blood trail
- the 10th bullet would have finished him off, which would have stopped feeding the blood trail, as the heart would have stopped pumping out blood when dead
- the damage to the stock could be explained away if crooks got shot through the chin/mouth/cheek, but we do not see these wounds in the photos of crooks’ dead body
- if the SWAT officer had injured crooks in the head, or chest, the stock would not have been damaged like it was
- as shown in the next picture, crooks looked at the witnesses under the trees at some point after the first shots were fired and before he got killed. this position looks like a very realistic position to have been taken out by a bullet coming from the rally area, leading to blood trails on the right side of his face…
crooks took this position somewhere after the 8th shot was fired and before the 10th shot finished him off, so maybe this is what happened:
- the SWAT officer shot the rifle out of his hands with bullet 9, but did not really injure crooks. this explains the damage to the stock of the rifle, and the lack of related face injuries
- crooks rose up above the ridge of the roof, exposing his head and enabling a head shot with bullet 10 from the person who took him out (remember that I do not believe that he got shot by any of the snipers on the barns behind Trump). this head shot would be consistent with the pictures we have seen, but if this shot killed him, the blood trail should be much smaller than what we have seen…
so, given the extended blood trail, it may as well be that bullet 10 did not kill him right away, but that
- he got confused but not seriously wounded by bullet 9,
- bled out following the injuries sustained from bullet 10, and
- by the time the “first responders” were on the roof, he had died “spontaneously” or with some help while he got handcuffed…
screenshots taken from the video “Trump Video Original Unedited” at 29s:
