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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: The body count starts at 1
Date: 01/07/26 5:26 PM
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Nope. He was standing directly behind the agent who approached the car door, when he fired the first shot. You can't see his body, but you can see his legs, behind the agent standing closer to the camera.

Here's the frame from the video that I think illustrates what Steve is describing:

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...and the relative position of the bullet hole in the windshield certainly supports that - it's to the extreme edge of the windshield but still struck the driver, which would suggests that the agent was standing to the side of the vehicle:

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But! It is really hard to judge these things from just watching an off-center phone video taken some distance away. This is why we have forensics and ballistics. They will be able to examine all of this and determine with some precision exactly where the officer was at relative to the car at the time the shots were fired. And even then, officers have some amount of judgment - they're not required to be perfect - and the vehicle was turning at the time. So the officer's position when the shot was fired may not be the same as when he drew his gun or a second or two before he drew his gun (which is when the assessment of threat would have been made).

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