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Crowd Taking Cover on the UVU Plaza

High-angle wide shot of a campus plaza where much of a large crowd is ducking or lying on the ground while a few people in the foreground look on

What This Image Shows​

A high-angle wide shot across the concrete plaza at Utah Valley University. Much of the crowd is ducking, crouching or already on the ground. A metal handrail cuts diagonally across the lower left of the frame, and a few people in the lower right are still upright and watching. Signage on the skybridge behind reads UVU and A PLACE FOR YOU, with a partial AMERICAN COMEBACK banner below.

No timestamp is burned into the frame, so its exact place in the sequence rests on the source video rather than on the image itself.

Frames from the seconds around the shot are the most contested material in the case. Researchers have used them to argue about crowd reaction direction, which way heads turned, and how that squares with the acoustic analysis of where the sound came from. Those arguments are gathered in The Shot and the Shooter Position, Witnesses and After the Shooting.

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