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From one camera angle, in one selectively shortened clip, it does look like the gun was trained on the window for upwards of 15 seconds before the shot was fired - and there’s no audible warning either.

However, from another angle, in a much longer clip, I can see three people smashing their way through the doors with as much force as they can - before numerous verbal warnings. That clip even shows one of the protesters gesturing a warning at them to get away from the doors - which they did.

Not only that, I’ve seen the eyewitness testimony of the poor young patriot who was stood right next to Ashli Babbit when she fell back after being shot - and HE says there were warnings.

So I ain’t going by ONE bit of selective evidence, I’m looking at all the footage not just from that doorway at that time but the interviews immediately following it.

Short version: here are the three clips you need to see.

https://twitter.com/kei_ryota/status/1347122857168564229
https://twitter.com/Jayyorkman/status/1347172717427126274
https://twitter.com/TomWho4/status/1347272641753837568.

The Jayyorkman clip runs longer and starts earlier than the Ryota clip showing the shooter, but is lower resolution. Five seconds into it you can see a guy with red jacket and grey hat, it is the same guy who’s in the Ryota clip.

In the JayYorkman clip you can CLEARLY hear people shouting “get back” and “get down” until exactly 14 seconds in when someone clearly shouts “He’s got a gun!” and just after that the guy in the red top reaches out to the right as if to warn the other two to back away. Thing is, we don’t know WHO shouted that. More on that in a minute.

20 seconds into clip (so a clear 5 seconds at least after hearing fifteen seconds’ worth of verbal warnings AND a hand signal) you can see Ashli Babbit climbing up at the window to climb through it. At 23 seconds in you can see a guy with a back cap, with a backpack, looking in her direction. More on him in a minute.

Back to the original clip, the one everyone is playing: https://twitter.com/kei_ryota/status/1347122857168564229

Obviously the footage in the Ryota video didn’t pick up the warning - firstly because the clipped footage started AFTER the warning was shouted, secondly the audio in that clip is nowhere near as clear as it is in the Jayyorkman footage.

The gloved hand is bobbing in and out of the doorway for quite some time - NOBODY on the other side of the door appears to be looking at it. Actually, none of them are paying any attention to ANYTHING happening the other side of the doors. Further down the hall there’s someone else stood in clear view before darting through a doorway on the left, and that is immediately followed by someone else appearing in the doorway at the far end. Just as that person dives out of view, the shot was fired - nine seconds into the clip.

Straight after the shot, 10-11 seconds in, the camera shows a young guy in a black cap, with a grey-ish backpack. That guy is one Thomas Borani from New Jersey. How do we know that? EASY - he was interviewed on camera: https://twitter.com/TomWho4/status/1347272641753837568. Same guy as at 23 seconds in on the JayYorkman video.

LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS: “A number of police and secret services were saying ‘get back, get down, get out of the way’. She didn’t heed the call...”

So we know exactly what happened on the protesters’ side of the door - and it is NOT fully covered by the Ryota clip.

What about on the other side?

It’s unknown. We have about eight seconds of video showing the gun hand moving back and forth, but it was trained at the one part of the doorway that had already been breached even before anybody came through.

With the immense amount of noise, and with at least two people appearing in the hallway during that time, we cannot even guess at what was being said or ordered from the gunman’s side of the doors.

It’s possible that the person stood in the doorway training his handgun at the breached door was holding fire because he could hear warnings being shouted from the other side and was perfectly aware that there were lots of security persons in there with the protesters. It’s equally possible he’d been ordered to shoot anybody and anything coming through the window.

Heck, it’s even possible the red shirt guy had seen the gun, heard the order, shouted out “He’s got a gun” and was gesticulating to the others to tell them that anyone going through that window was dead meat.

And, all it needed was for one person on the gunman’s side of the barricade to shout a warning just as Ashli Babbit launched herself through the window, for instinct to kick in.

There are numerous explanations for what happened, that don’t have to involve a deliberate, premeditated kill shot.