“1. We don’t know that Vance was there.”
Yes we do.
“As Connecticut State Police continue to search for answers into last week’s deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Lt. Paul Vance spoke out about what he witnessed last Friday.”
http://www.wfsb.com/story/20380533/lt-vance-speaks-about-his-experiences-at-sandy-hook
“2. Vance is a state police “spokesman”.”
He’s a firsthand witness, as demonstrated above. He may be a spokesman as well, but that doesn’t diminish his credibility as a firsthand witness.
“If they say Lanza was wearing a bulletproof vest early on, then he was wearing a bulletproof vest.”
No, if Lanza was wearing a bulletproof vest, then he was, and if he wasn’t, then he wasn’t. It doesn’t matter what the media says, they cannot change the facts of the case depending on how they report it. That is simply magical thinking.
>>” Lt. Paul Vance spoke out about what he witnessed last Friday.”<<
He could have witnessed it on TV. Just like us. It doesn’t mean he was actually there. In what little I watched that day, I could say....
ILS21R responded to a question about what he saw when parents flooded the scene, trying to find their children.
“When they couldn’t find their children, fear set in,” he said. “Panic set in. Pain set in. It was the fear of the unknown. When the notification finally had been made, it was absolutely heartbreaking.”
>>He may be a spokesman as well, but that doesn’t diminish his credibility as a firsthand witness.<<
See above.
>>No, if Lanza was wearing a bulletproof vest, then he was, and if he wasn’t, then he wasn’t. It doesn’t matter what the media says, they cannot change the facts of the case depending on how they report it. That is simply magical thinking.<<
He was wearing a bulletproof vest. I already explained why.