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70sEraVet

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9. Watching it again, and watching videos taken by bystanders --

Reply to orangecrush (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 9, 2026, 10:17 PM

Jan 9

It looks like he does Not drop the cellphone, like I thought. I just watched this other newsroom video that contains a bystander's video. At 2:08, you can see the agent holster his gun with his right hand, and you can see that he is holding his cellphone with his left, continuing to video the scene.
What looked like the moment the cellphone was dropped, may have been just him swapping the cellphone to his left hand so that he could draw his gun?
This is the newsroom video:
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Premeditated orangecrush Jan 9 #3

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Good question orangecrush Jan 9 #8

Watching it again, and watching videos taken by bystanders -- 70sEraVet Jan 9 #9

That's what it looks like orangecrush Jan 10 #10