At this point, we don’t know if all nine were killed by police 5.56mm rounds, or what.
But the absence of any exculpatory video tape being produced by the Waco PD, and 170+ men being arrested on million dollar bails, tells me it was a police sniper massacre, no matter how it started.
And the “original sin,” no matter what we hear in coming weeks, will probably prove to have been done by a police informant or undercover cop.
Of course, we won’t know that for a long time.
But no matter what, if you lay in three angles of sniper fire, it’s a sniper ambush, just waiting for a plausible pretext to open fire.
I just keep asking myself what in the world were these cops thinking. Setting up a buzz saw on American streets. Didn’t it occur to anyone with a badge that this could all go terribly wrong? I just don’t get it. I remember as a naive 18 y.o. Sitting at a Mountain concert on the Boulder lawn, everyone smoking dope like no tomorrow and on both sides of us were dozens of police, elbow to elbow. I remember thinking, “What the hell are they gonna do? Arrest all 10,000 of us?”. That they might just start shooting didn’t cross my mind. Apparently it should have. In the interval I learned to avoid crowds and the police unless it was worth it. Singing Amazing Grace with a million others on The Mall was worth it.