Finny, kudos to you and don-o on this and your many other informative and insightful comments on this matter.
Thank you so very kindly. I am in the company of many good FReepers.
As Bob Dylan said, “I won’t let go and I can’t let go...”
Despite the paucity of facts, we do have enough from the police ALONE to raise serious questions.
In the immediate aftermath, Swanton said that they basically saw it coming. Yet, several days later, Stroman informs that his men were SITTING IN THEIR VEHICLES.
Later still, we get an affidavit (constructed from videos per internal references) that there were signs of impending conflict on the site, before the first shot was fired and while the Waco PD was SITTING IN THEIR VEHICLES. Stroman stated that his men got out of their vehicles AFTER the first shot.
The Waco PD has scrubbed their previous updates from their facebook and now have a judge putting a gag order on the attorneys.
These factors point to, at the very least, a poorly prepared and executed operation. I believe that they all know that and are hoping it will somehow just all blow over.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times and more, I don’t even know what to say.