(07-16-2024, 06:06 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: C'mon this can't be real, can it??
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That's what I was thinking when that dumbass opened her mouth and that stupid shit just fell right out - too much slope? The roof the counter-snipers were on had a little more slope, but you put 'em there all the same.
That slope can work in favor of the counter-snipers. If the sniper gains the same roof, he's unlikely to stay on the same side as the counter-snipers, because they'll just punch his ticket then and there. So he'll stay to the reverse slope from them... and that means the ridge crest is available to give them concealment when they gain the roof crest, whereas at that point the reverse slope is wide open for them to shoot down.
I'm told that the roof crest was providing cover to the shooter, and that's why they had a delayed response - because they couldn't get a good sight picture due to that cover the roof crest was providing. Had they had a team on that roof, all they would have had to do would have been to crawl up to the crest and lay waste to what was beyond. In this case, a sniper. The story currently is that the sniper was on the reverse slope from the counter-sniper team, and on an entirely different building, so the counter snipers couldn't just gain the crest and light him up.
If they had had a team on that same building, that wouldn't have been an issue.
Here is what I mean by "reverse slope":
Here is a shot of the ladder that some folks are claiming the shooter used to gain rooftop access - it's hidden behind that clump of arborvitae trees, leaned against the connecting hallway that provides access between the two buildings and across that little alley between them:
You can see the same clump of arborvitae in some of the other views, on the parking lot end of the shooter's building.
Some reports claim you can see the shooter's body laying there, but you can't. I can see what appears to be an AR platform rifle closest to the crest of the roof, some small unidentifiable blackish clump midway down the roof, and what looks like a black duffel down near the roof edge. No bodies, no blood stains. The shooter's body was at the other end of the roof, but on that same sloped side. IF he used that ladder to gain access, I think he may have used the duffel to smuggle the rifle in, then discarded the duffel once he gained rooftop access, and then low-crawled along the roof edge to prevent observation from the ground. Once at the other end (the rally end of the building), he would then have low-crawled along the edge towards the roof crest, which is when the video showing him crawling was shot. The roof crest would have concealed him from the counter-sniper's position, and made their shot more difficult... until he raised his head up just enough...
So the counter-snipers could get to their own roof crest, and that gave them access to the reverse slope of their own building and the near slope of the sniper's building, but the reverse slope the sniper was on was less accessible, with the roof crest providing him cover and concealment. It's likely that when the counter-sniper took the shot, the only target he had was a slightly raised head.
But I reckon that was enough.
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