Eyewitness & Mobile Video
Fixed surveillance cameras tell one story; phones in the crowd tell another. This page covers attendee-recorded video — the footage investigators reportedly pressured witnesses to delete, and the high-frame-rate clips citizen researchers use to test bullet-versus-device theories. We do not claim any witness committed a crime.
Ryne Simmons — 4K close-up (reported)
According to the investigation file and @ninoboxer amplification:
- Witness Ryne Simmons says he recorded a close-up 4K @ 60fps video of the assassination.
- He sent the footage to the FBI to assist investigators.
- Federal investigators reportedly called multiple times to ensure the video was deleted from his device.
- Simmons says he preserved a copy anyway (his claim; not verified in court).
Commentary argues close-range high-frame-rate video could resolve wound mechanism, timing relative to crowd reaction, and the rooftop shooter narrative. The full censorship thread is on Ryne Simmons — FBI Video; this page notes it as the most important mobile source named in public discussion.
Jon Bray — multi-angle shirt analysis
Researcher Jon Bray (@jonaaronbray) has published repeated breakdowns arguing Charlie Kirk's shirt movement in synchronized angles is incompatible with a .30-06 rifle impact and consistent with an explosive event near the microphone. His work cites side/right high-quality angles — including frames described as "Cub's" 60fps and "Mark's" 30fps — with slow-motion sequencing of the moments before and during the apparent fatal injury (source: investigation notes, [Charlie_Kirk.txt]).
Bray's 4K close-up shirt analysis is widely credited in citizen-investigator posts as changing how readers interpret the visible fabric motion. Skeptics counter that a micro-charge would not produce the large smoke signature shown in breaching-charge demos — see Mic for both sides.
Blake Bednarz — UVU original recording
Blake Bednarz is named in the investigation file as having been at UVU on September 10. His "Blake Bednarz UVU original.MP4" (~3 GB) is pinned on IPFS (CID QmP2eKb15evsp4wWAJZaLXxq8wtXrLNEvoRSTzvm3sWYBc) with a metadata report and video forensic information sheet in the repo IPFS directory. That file is an independent mobile/original capture researchers use alongside official feeds.
Other crowd phones
Beyond the named witnesses, dozens of attendees reportedly recorded the event. Those clips supply unique audio and angles that fixed UVU surveillance and TPUSA production cameras do not. Commentary alleges phones near the stage smear distinct acoustic events into one blast — which is why the Canon XA55 broadcast track is treated as a separate evidence class.
Speculative phone-interference claims
Some posts tie the ISR aircraft N1098L to capability to intercept or alter mobile streams. That is speculative in the investigation file and is not stated here as fact; it appears because researchers ask whether eyewitness video could have been degraded or removed in real time.
What would settle the mobile-video questions
Preservation of Simmons' copy under chain of custody, public release of synchronized raw crowd angles, and discovery of whether federal agents instructed deletion rather than evidence intake. Fix Laws disclosure targets include FBI logs of witness contact.