Z.W. Wolf
Senior Member.
The Impossible Trajectory Claim
In general the claim is: Objects were hit which Thomas Crooks could not have hit from his position. This claim is based on not having a clear idea of the layout of the area... yet definite statements are made. This claim is not well formalized, but is very common.
It's usually expressed in a bald statement, and is often used to support another bald statement about a second (third? fourth?) shooter.
With the available public data, I think we can safely say that all permutations of the impossible trajectory claim are disproven. This is with the caveat that people making the claim right now are making judgements based on false info, so they have no basis on which to make this claim. If reliable publicly available data comes to light that proves that objects were hit that were not in the line of sight of Crooks, then the issue can be re-opened.
All objects that we know were hit: The three spectator victims, Trump, the grandstand railing, the boom truck. When properly placed, they all fit into this line of sight. Everything, so far, is consistent with a single shooter, situated where it is known Crooks was situated.
See this thread for visual support of this:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/where-did-the-bullets-go-and-what-did-they-do.13573/#post-320035
In general the claim is: Objects were hit which Thomas Crooks could not have hit from his position. This claim is based on not having a clear idea of the layout of the area... yet definite statements are made. This claim is not well formalized, but is very common.
It's usually expressed in a bald statement, and is often used to support another bald statement about a second (third? fourth?) shooter.
With the available public data, I think we can safely say that all permutations of the impossible trajectory claim are disproven. This is with the caveat that people making the claim right now are making judgements based on false info, so they have no basis on which to make this claim. If reliable publicly available data comes to light that proves that objects were hit that were not in the line of sight of Crooks, then the issue can be re-opened.
All objects that we know were hit: The three spectator victims, Trump, the grandstand railing, the boom truck. When properly placed, they all fit into this line of sight. Everything, so far, is consistent with a single shooter, situated where it is known Crooks was situated.
See this thread for visual support of this:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/where-did-the-bullets-go-and-what-did-they-do.13573/#post-320035
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