Regarding the above X, Jon Bray's analysis seems to indicate that the rectangular magnetic clip hit the neck and caused the wound. He then goes on to say that the clip falls out of the wound. So, I'm confused. Is he saying the clip created an entry wound, but then fell out of that wound because of the gushing blood?
He then goes on to say there were two wounds. He lost me.
If so, I think he's wrong. In the high-quality video that came out a couple weeks ago, you can see the clip stays attached during the whole event. It is still attached when the wound appears.
I guess what he meant by two wounds was that the main charge penetrated Charlie’s chest, and then the magnetic clip hit his neck, causing another wound. However, it appears that the two wounds were caused by the shaped charge going through the chest and exiting (or parts of it) through the neck.
and please let me interject that every analysis of what happened to Charlie that involves breaking down the vids of his death greatly enhances my sorrow for Charlie. That such a horrible attack was perpetrated on him while being completely unsuspecting of the team that did this to him. He knew those guys and felt secure that he had nothing to fear while sitting in that chair.
Yeah. I felt that especially the video included in Bray’s X post was rather graphic, going back and forth with the neck bleeding (without any ”blurring” of it as many of the other analysts have done), and with the poor choice of background music, I thought that it was in a way ”disrespectful", for lack of a better word.
When I included Bray’s full X write-up in my
post, I hadn’t watched the video in its entirety, and when I did so while paying attention (after posting), I thought that it would be better just to put his written text only in it, and leave a link to the clip for those who wanted to see it. So, I removed the video before the end of the 10-minute editing time.
(A side note: I was wondering why the original version of my post (with the video) could be seen in your quotation of it, but then realized that you must have done the quoting before I finished the editing.)
Anyways, perhaps I overreacted with this, but felt that it was in some way unnecessary ”exploitation”. (Personally, although the article about Charlie (and Iryna) was written in a thoughtful and reverent way, it was enough to see a short clip of the uncensored incident on John Carter’s substack
article.)