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Post Asking About Hand Signals Before the Shot

Phone screenshot of an X post showing a blurry zoomed video frame of people outdoors with a red circle around a small pale dot on the left

What This Image Shows​

A vertical phone screenshot of a post on X by @Andrew_JCC. The attached media is a heavily zoomed, blurry video frame of several people outdoors, with a red circle drawn around a small indistinct pale dot on the left. The video transport reads 0:09 of 0:10, and the post shows engagement counts of roughly 578 replies, 1.8K reposts and 138K views.

The post text reads: "...and why are these two guys giving hand signals immediately before the shot? Both standing perfectly to the side of the bullet track." It is phrased as a question, and it should be read as one — the poster is asking about gestures seen in a ten-second clip and asserting a relationship to a claimed bullet path. Neither man is named, the gestures are not shown clearly at this resolution, and there is no basis in the image for concluding that anyone visible knew anything in advance. People at crowded events gesture constantly.

Its place in this cluster is as part of the side-trajectory argument rather than as evidence of coordination. The file is kept under the name Bullet from Side, and the claim it carries — that a track ran laterally past those positions — is one of several competing readings collected here, including the post-exit reading at Zeb Boykin Post: Circled Blur Read as Post-Exit.

See the site's own treatment at Trajectory and Wound Mismatch and Security Team.

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