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Other — Photo Evidence

Photo evidence filed under Other — 3 images on this page. Scan the list and open any image for the full picture and its write-up.

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These three wide, high-angle photographs are the best available establishing shots of the crowd at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Taken from elevated positions on the buildings ringing the plaza, they show hundreds of predominantly college-age attendees filling the terraced grass amphitheater, the paved walkways, the stairwells and the multi-level balconies overlooking the courtyard, with the white THE AMERICAN COMEBACK TOUR canopy and a blue-and-pink SAVE AMERICA - GET INVOLVED tent set among them. Two carry visible agency watermarks, one crediting The Salt Lake Tribune through Getty.

Read as evidence, their value is spatial rather than narrative. They fix the position of the tents against the buildings, show how many people were on the elevated walkways and balconies with a clear view down into the courtyard, and record which parts of the plaza were fenced off with metal crowd barriers. Every one of those details bears on questions the investigation keeps returning to: how many camera-carrying witnesses had an overhead angle on the tent, what sightlines existed from the surrounding roofs and balconies, and how a crowd this size was managed by what the campus police chief later described as six officers. UVU GRAMA records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation reportedly put the chief's own crowd estimate at 3,000.

Nothing in these frames identifies anyone or supports any theory on its own - they are the wide shots the close analysis is cut from. Pair them with more for the empty-courtyard reference views and Roof for the annotated rooftop frames, then read Campus Security Gaps and UVU Courtyard.