I have never seen that casing getting ejected…
I have watched this clip many times, both the “original” and the stabilised version, and I simply do not see anything being ejected…
I do see what you mean with the coperish colored thingie in this animated gif, but that does not really match the ejection flight patterns I see when people fire an AR-15 style rifle…
I really think that this animated gif has been made using finetuned frames…
You have to watch this part of the video frame by frame then you can see it.
To me it looks like the ejection direction is in the green zone
AR15 Ejection Pattern Tuning Overview (youtube.com)
I made that gif myself from screenshots of the above mentioned video, no changes or finetuning made.
But now that we have this time aligned video we can tell.
Would be great though to have the full video without the breaks and comments.
yes, I know you did not make the changes. what I am saying is that the input video was doctored…
I watched several versions of that video frame by frame, and none of them are very convincing to me…
Of course, if the source video (or at least the source video released by TMZ) already was doctored then you could be right.
Would be great we could get hands on Mike DiFrischa’s original.
I have overlayed a red ejection port (https://tacticaltransition.com/product/ar-15-ejection-port-dust-cover-assembly-gen-3-anodized-red) at the exact location where it should be:
@sorey: could you give me the individual frames of this animated gif?
I can then overlay them with the red ejection port and see what we get…
@vegaspatriot @howdoiknowthisinfo
Found the guys full video, unfortunately it also has the breaks and comments. But some good insights in the rally organisation and the shooting aftermath situation in the crowd.
nice mock-up again 
I know I’m picky now, but shouldn’t the rifle be slightly more to the left? To me it looked like the stock sited in his shoulder. Would also a bit better fit the proportions of his hand grabbing the handle.
yes, that is what @sgt-raven and @bigtim suggested too, but the overlay is exactly on the contours of the rifle of the original image…
so, given this image, I scaled the evidence photo from the fast buriers of information, keeping the exact aspect ratios and overlayed it over the contour of what we see in the above image to get the following:
BigTim and SgtRaven then suggested to make a similar version but with the position they were trained to hold their AR-15 rifles while on active duty, which gave this:
and that would mean that he had shortened the stock as it would be impossible to shoot in the position they were trained to hold their weapon, which led to this:
and as the evidence photo shows that crooks held that rifle far away from his shoulder, we get the version with the red ejection port overlay:
Todays Congressional Task Force Hearing
Mr. Edward Lenz: Sergeant, Adams Township Police Department, Commander, Butler County Emergency Services Unit (1st from Left)
Mr. Drew Blasko: Patrolman, Butler Township Police Department (2nd from Left)
Mr. John D. Herold: Lieutenant, Pennsylvania State Police (3rd from Left)
Mr. Patrick Sullivan: Former United States Secret Service Agent (4th from Left)
Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt: Medical Examiner, Allegheny County, Pa. (takes part remotely)
so, if you have the individual frames of the animated gif, I can easily overlay this rifle with the red ejection port and see where we get from there…
Great video! You know how valuable video footag from before the shooting can be. In this one, it appears to me that it was mostly Secret Service police manning the magnitrometers versus HSI or whatever agency the allegedly pull manpower from. Anyways, I’ll use this in my Research Tool instead. Thanks for sharing it.
try this, 9 frames I made the gif from
Gif 1st shot.zip - Files - File Browser (barf.bz)
Could you make this one with the stock extended?
exactly right!
and we see the position of the flag right after the 3rd shot and the position of the JCB hydraulic teleporter/lift too!
unfortunately, I am (not yet) a flag-wind-angle-positioning expert, but I am working on it 
Just watching the testimonies beside.
Interesting, Lenz in his opening statement: “In fact my wife was one of the paramedics embedded with our team at the rally and she provided treatment to those that had been shot”
Lenz confirms the local SWAT took shot #9
Thanks for the screenshots from the hearing.
Here Dr. Goldschmidt says something on where Crooks was shot
They also showing unreleased dashcam footage of the PSP car that was positioned beside the water tower (along with M500-010482)
Combing through more cam footage, I found this fella again:
On Paul Kuss’s cam as he’s transporting witnesses.
A pretty sure match for our 117 bodycam.
He makes a few other appearances in the video, but apparently is a master of hiding his name patch when on bwc! (Imagine that!) Had a very hard time trying to sharpen his appearances enough to make out his name patch, but Paul addresses him as Max when asking if he has paper, leading me here:
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On a side note, I can only hope that this is uncomfortable:
Thanks for the ID of Max. I’ll add his photo.
