ext_306469 ([identity profile] paft.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-04-11 02:56 am (UTC)

p: While he was crawling on his belly leaving a smear of blood on the ground? I didn't see anything in his hands in that footage.
M: Noone was shooting him while he was crawling there. He was shot before that.

Well since that sequence is the one I've been talking about, what relevance do you imagine him earlier taking a picture of a Humvee has in this context?

m: Did you see another live soul on those streets when camera zooms out. Noone in their right mind will go ooh i just saw two gunships spewing 30mm rounds from their chainguns.... oooh and I hear some small arms fire and Bradleys 25mm cannon! Let me go check it out what's going on!

According to the surviving family members, the man who owned the van lived nearby and was taking his two children to a tutoring session. I suspect gunfire is not an uncommon sound in that area, even today. The guns had been stopped for several minutes. I can easily imagine someone thinking, okay, the guns have stopped. I can get my kids to their tutoring session now, pulling out, finding the injured man, and stopping to help him.

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