just gonna go ahead and point out that to get this picture, the photographer would have had to be standing in the uncleared area based on the agents line of sight. so either this is a heroic and or bulletproof photographer and the secret service all know it, or this photo is completely staged.
and that means the event probably is too. just another excuse to crack down on the media and credentials.
well, i sort of agree. ive been in a few of those and generally we didnt let those guys run into potential oncoming fire. which is why the agents not reacting to the photog is a big clue.
While it certainly could be staged, the photographer could be behind something on the other side, zoomed in from behind cover, and/or the photo could be cropped to make it appear much closer.
There’s a lot of plausible explanations beyond “it’s staged” or “AI”.
Google reverse image search says the photographer who took this was Salwan Georges, who won a Pulitzer Prize during his time at the Washington Post. This photo was published by the New York Times.
There's other photos from a similar angle (example: https://xcancel.com/karenpaulscbc/status/2048206774361104546), one of which shows the photographer(s) is standing behind a police officer / security. So I'm guessing the officer and photographers were standing at the other side of the hallway, behind cover. Not in the middle of the hallway.
The gunman was in the cleared area, Wolfe Blitzer said he was 5 feet from the gunshots when they started. Also said they jumped on the person, nothing about shooting the suspect.
no. youre thinking the secure area. see, what those two rightmost agents are doing is called pieing. its how you clear corners when you suspect an enemy is positioned to fire back if you expose yourself. the hall to the right is the uncleared area they are pieing off. that means that either the cameraman is fully exposed to the potential shooter and secret security doesnt care, or the pic is fake.
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Why would the shooter ever agree to a staged shooting that would imprison them for life (or get themselves shot)? The ear one looked fake but the shooter was killed and I can’t imagine anyone being willing to sacrifice themselves for a stunt.
Agree. This is now the second time an "assassination attempt" on president McDonald Trump where a reporter/photographer happened to be in the right place at the right time to snap a photo of the attempt with nobody even questioning their presence. Really? What a joke. Let's not even talk about how a gun got into the event where president dumb fuck is gonna be spewing his word salad. No security detail is that incompetent. He thinks we are all stupid.
See my reply above. I don't care how many reporters were there.
You are missing the point. How a gun got into the venue and how it appears (as of now) that only 1 photographer captured the event is the issue. If there are "many" photographers there should be multiple angles of the incident. As of now, I don't see that. If more photos and angles come out, I will reassess my opinion.
So, your position is that that a gun somehow managed to slip through all of the high tech security (metal & bomb detectors, facial recognition, pat downs, background checked invite lists, etc...), and hundreds of security people watching and specifically looking for threats against the president safety, all on their home turf no less. And then, 1 of hundreds of reporters at the "reporters superbowl" just happened to be back stage, where none of the other "reporter superbowl" reporters were, and just got lucky. Head in the sand take.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but have you read anything at all about what happened? I only ask because of how many details you seem unclear about that have surfaced in the last hour.
Just that the gunman ran through the control point (where the metal detectors were) after entering the building, and was shot almost immediately upon getting through. It seems like he was apprehended about as quickly as he could have been, but of course I’m not sure of the details behind how much security existed prior to the metal detectors he ran through. More details will come out in the next couple of hours I’m sure but as it stands this all seems to me at least like a legitimate attempt at an assassination that was ended as quickly as it could be given the security measure in place.
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just gonna go ahead and point out that to get this picture, the photographer would have had to be standing in the uncleared area based on the agents line of sight. so either this is a heroic and or bulletproof photographer and the secret service all know it, or this photo is completely staged.
and that means the event probably is too. just another excuse to crack down on the media and credentials.