Originally published at: https://peakprosperity.com/they-had-a-perfect-view-and-10-feet-of-elevation/
The lack of noticeable splatter on the roof behind Crooks’ body does not comport with the idea of a .300 WinMag round hitting it while he was alive and in an upright position with his head held up.
That would have pretty much taken it clean off and left a huge cone of spatter/splatter that clearly wasn’t there. We know this because the on-scene officers walked right up the roof lanes on either side of the body.
If a .300 WinMag had hit a head, they would have been stepping gingerly through a scattered field of biological material.
So the only explanation is that Crooks was already in a fully prone position, and the bullet from Sniper Team #2 hit the top of his head and traveled deep into his body.
Maybe that’s what they meant by “one in a million” when describing the shot? Almost nothing was visible to the snipers above the roof ridge cap because he was already fully prone?
Again, that would be consistent with Crooks already being shot and dead by the ESU sniper. So we’re going to keep that hypothesis alive for the moment.
Speaking of which I cover my approach to the analytical process and describe the green, yellow, and red versions of data and investigative material and how those support or help reject various hypotheses. It’s how I think, put down on slides.
Also in this report, I cover the fact that Sniper Team #1 had no view of Crooks and was in no position to take a shot. A tree was in their way.
But Sniper Team #2 was not only in position but a solid 10-15 feet higher than Trump meaning that it would have been impossible for Crooks to poke his head above the roof ridge an see Trump enough to take the shots without the Sniper team being able to spot Crooks first.
This is simple geometry and it can be safely and immediately tucked into the green category. To explain this away, the only possible excuse for Sniper Team #2 is that they were looking some other place for some reason and didn‘t see him for the 2.5 minutes Crooks was bear crawling about on the roof of building 6.
Other possible, but also deeply unsatisfying, explanations might include (1) they were told to stand down or (2) they were told it was a training exercise or (3) they were misinformed by someone that the figure on the roof over there was a friendly.
That last one doesn’t cut it for me because with the scopes they had, this clearly wasn’t an LOE SO they’d have had to have been told it was an undercover LEO on some sort of mission.
Finally, I end with a plea: We NEED the RAW, uncompressed, and unprocessed version of this video:
Link to above video: https://x.com/YWNReporter/status/1812683230413283789