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I was keying in on parts of the video that weren’t being showcased, looking at what was going on away from the focal point of the video.

I watched one sequence until the camera went to another feed. It was being shot from a helicopter, and showed the roof of a building with smoke swirling around. But if you watched the small forms of people in the street far below, they were clustered around a car. You could barely make out the forms of people, legs, arms, torso and head, but no distinguishable features, they all looked like they were wearing black clothes.

But what I saw was a damaged car with people around it parked at an angle in the middle of the street. One guy came up and kicked one side, and there were people clustered around the passenger side.

I saw one guy walk around the front of the car, and people stepped away from him, the same way a school of fish disperses slightly when you extend your hand to them.

The guy turned and walked towards another group, and they dispersed slightly the same way. There was another guy on the other side of the car standing close to it, and the guy walked around the trunk towards him. He retreated a few steps, but apparently had no intention of moving further, and the smaller guy (apparently defending his car) clocked the guy with a roundhouse punch.

The bigger guy staggered back but didn’t retreat further, and the smaller guy advanced on him and belted him again, after which the guy staggered into a larger group who clustered around him, then the camera switched.

I was fascinated, because I doubt any other viewers watching the feed saw it, it was so small, inconsequential and out of focus. With all the stuff, unless you happened to latch onto it like I did, you would never see it.

It made me resolve to conceal carry everywhere I go now.

The long hot summer is just beginning, and I think a tremendous number of people have decided that they need to carry concealed everywhere they go. It's just smart.

But what that means is that in the coming weeks, the probablity that some stupid rioters are going to bump into the wrong fellow has dramatically increased.

What will the news say when that happens? I expect willful escalation of the tension.

Thanks. I tried to do a bit of that as well. I tried a couple of times to “pause” the feed that I was watching then I realized that it would resume in real time and I lost the amount of time that I was paused. All in all it was very informative.