Now Playing on Dtube: Deterring Bullets - Florida School Shooting Victim States She Used Book to Deter Bullets From Hitting Her
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Video uploaded by NBC Today Show on February 15, 2018 features Samantha Grady a student witness to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that took place on February 14, 2018. During the interview there are a number of statements and actions that do not make normal sense. Those behavioral aspects and anomalies are listed below:
At the beginning of the interview Samantha Grady is smiling.
Throughout the interview the NBC hosts provide leading statements that frame the narrative in an emotional manner.
At the 0:50 mark an NBC host asks if Samantha is ok. Samantha responds by covering her face and stating "I'm ok" while emitting a slight giggle. She then states "Thank you" and emits a slight laugh once again.
At the 1:15 mark Samantha Grady states " Well I was doing an assignment for my holocaust class" - (holocaust class? US high schools normally have history classes)
On-screen graphics displayed by the NBC Today show at the 1:43 mark states "Wounded Student Speaks Out". Samantha Grady appears not to be injured and is moving her entire body freely and exhibiting no pain during this entire interview which takes place one day after the alleged shooting.
At the 1:53 mark Samantha Grady exhibits lots of animated descriptive hand movements and body movements. No sign of discomfort due to an injury is apparent.
At the 2:16 mark the NBC hosts provide more leading emotional statements.
At the 2:38 mark the NBC hosts provides the following leading statement " And we were reading that your friend suggested to you, just get a book, hold up a book".
At the 2:42 mark Samantha Grady states "Yeah, she was the one who pushed me and we were running, like we were already situated in the....umm... by the bookshelf, and she was like grab a book, grab a book so I took a book......it was a tiny book......but I took a book and I held it up...and I believe...maybe....that some....the book kind of deterred some of the bullets...err....so they didn't hit me so bad (pause) ly....but she was the one who gave me the idea........(at this point the subjects eyes go down as if reading from a script) yeah....she definitely helped....a lot.
More leading questions from the Today Show hosts draw upon emotions and reuniting with her family.
Subjects hand gestures at the 3:35 and 3:55 mark is not the typical type of gesture one would normally use for holding a cell phone in actuality.
At the 4:00 mark when Samantha Grady states " I'm in the ambulance and I'm on my way to North Broward, and I will, and try (once again makes odd cell phone hand gesture) and come there and then just ask for me, I'll tell them your names....and......that''s what happened. (Subjects eyes dart off to the side quickly - this is likely body language showing self reaffirmation via her stating "thats what happened" combined with the sideways eye movements.)
At 4:23 mark eyes quickly dart left after describing the family reunion at hospital (possible also self affirmation of her story).
Throughout the rest of the interview the NBC hosts continue to focus upon emotional matters such as family discussions at the hospital and Samantha being a brave young woman and having a supportive family.
Propaganda fact: Drawing upon emotions helps to cement a narrative within the psyche of the person being affected by the propaganda. An emotional appeal is the most natural form of persuasion. It’s powerful. It’s effective. Sometimes, it can even support a weak argument, or obscure a good argument’s logical focus. Normally, if you see a politician or a TV show host constantly drawing upon emotions to tell a story, rather than simply getting at the facts, then there is cause to be suspect of the subject matter. An appeal to emotion, while not necessarily untrue, is a logical fallacy, because it focuses attention on the audience’s feelings — their fears or dreams or sympathies — rather than on a valid, logical argument. Sometimes, it’s a distraction. A red herring.
In this case, the most significant anomalies that stands out in this Today Show interview are 1) the fact the interviewee is being portrayed as injured but shows no apparent sign of injury or discomfort due to an injury, and 2) the witness states she "deterred' (word makes no sense in regards to the subject matter) bullets from a high powered assault rifle with a "tiny" book. This statement stands out due to the fact that the video linked below clearly shows that an AR-15 is capable of shooting through 15 phone books. Thus, its relatively easy to determine that her statement cannot be factual, and had a book been shot, she would have been well aware of it specifically occurring and not wondering whether it actually took place. She also most likely would have had a gunshot wound to the face if she was holding the book in front of her face while attempting to "deter" bullets that were hitting it. If it was a tiny book she most likely would have had serious hand injuries from holding it up while it was being shot with an AR-15 assault rifle at relatively close range. (Distance from door window to wall windows/back of classroom is less than 50 feet).
Link to video showing AR-15 shooting through 15 phone books.
Link to other witness statements that include anomalies related to the February 14, 2018 school shooting.
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Link to Facebook video of CNN interview with Samantha Grady where she describes here injuries.
https://www.facebook.com/NewDay/videos/1613937568671420/
The CNN employee states "you were shot, can you tell us how you are doing and what your injuries were?"
Samantha Gray states "I'm doing well. My injuries are......I was shot twice. I was grazed on my back and a bullet ricocheted into my chest and theres fragments there and whatnot".
CNN employee: " And you also lost your best friend".
Samantha Grady: "Yes, unfortunately I did lose my best friend".
AR-15s are .22 caliber bullets. If you research bullet design, you will discover that bullets can be manufactured for various purposes, including penetration (armor piercing). Such bullets are designed to not deform to the degree possible when striking.
Bullets designed to harm living things are designed to fragment or deform at the least contact, and won't penetrate even one phone book, particularly such low mass bullets as .22 caliber, typically from 45 to 55 grains.
A good metaphor for bullets is cars. Some cars can go 600 MPH. Some can't go 35. Some can haul rocket ships to launch pads, and some can barely haul one person. Bullets are just as diverse in their designs as cars.
If a book is all you have to put between you and a shooter, use the book. Particularly with a .22 caliber, which has very little mass to pound through the book with.
You are absolutely right that she wouldn't be wondering if the book was hit by a bullet, as even an AR-15 will deliver about 700 ft lbs. of energy at that range, and would at least make a hole in the book, if not knock it clean from her hands.
I agree as to emotional manipulation via the enemedia. That's what they're for, after all: promulgation of propaganda, and they're really good at it, as we can see in this clip.
As to the analysis of the gestures and speech of the victim, I hold little stock in it. People's reaction to crisis, personal mannerisms, and remarkable elasticity make me highly skeptical of it. It's clearly possible that the victim could be a crisis actor, but that isn't saying much, particularly in a world with Face2Face software freely available. People fool lie detector tests on accident, and with training every time. Every trick you think you know is known to professional propagandists, and incorporated into their presentations.
I find it of vanishingly little use.
Data regarding content, changing stories, timelines, and etc., is demonstrably useful.
Thanks!
Thanks for your response @valued-customer. In the video included above he shoots an AR-15 with a .556 round at close range and penetrates 15 phone books. I am not sure what round the shooter used in the Florida school shooting but I have not heard that it was .22 round. Other calibers include 5.56×45mm NATO, 5.7×28mm, 6.8mm Remington SPC, .300 Blackout, 9×19mm Parabellum and .458 SOCOM to name a few, according to Wikipedia. The design and shooting power is relatively the same as the M-16 which is designed for military use.
5.56 mm is .22 caliber. While AR-15s can be purchased in those other rounds, they're uncommon. My assumption is that it was the typical .22 caliber, just as is the M-16.
There are lot of good reasons to use .22 for military use, including being able to pack more rounds in a can, and that wounding an enemy takes 5 guys out of service (they have to pack him away from the front and get him to medical care), while killing one only takes out one.
Shooting someone with armor piercing rounds leaves a neat hole poked through them, which is orders of magnitude less lethal than shooting someone with a round designed to mushroom and expend it's energy immediately.
I'll watch the video now, but a round that will penetrate to that depth of phone books is really unsuitable for causing maximum harm to the target. Also, I'm assuming the phone books are dry, which makes them much more easily penetrated than organic material.
Wet phone books are very close to the density of meat. This is why they are often used in bullet performance tests.
I'm displaying my assumptions a lot here =p
Imma shut up now and watch the video.
Thanks!
I have watched the video, and the assumptions I made are correct. The phone books are dry, and it was a full metal jacketed round, which didn't mushroom or deform at all.
If you look at the books the hole gradually gets larger as the bullet drags material from the previous book, or tumbles, into each new book.
A soft point hunting round would not have penetrated 5 wet phone books, and would have left a hole the size of your fist out the back of the first book. They are designed to mushroom, to spread wider, and to deliver the energy into the target, which is the opposite of full metal jacketed rounds, which are designed to penetrate armor and wound.
Wow I'm just in awe that we as a NATION have not pointed the utter bullshit going on, out to each other and stopped it. I REALLY WONDER what it will actually take for the people of this country to rise up and stop the tyranny that wishes to enslave us all. God help us...