A lot of right-wingers have started to come out saying that the first shot was an accidental misfire of Pretti's sig when it was an ICE agent's hand. This is pretty easy to debunk with two videos and some fun waveform analysis.
1. Original footage of the shooting that was released
This is the initial event that people are using to justify that it was the sig that fired. Initial shot happens at 0:49 seconds in this clip. Things to note here are as follows: a) the sig is facing down towards the ground, and he starts to move upward as it happens. This isn't very conclusive, because the dude was waddling away like a complete dork. b) you can see the trajectory that the bullet would've taken, and there is very clearly no impact mark on the ground below, nor is there visible muzzle blast from the gun. It's freezing out, you'll see a more significant muzzle blast due to the temperature differential. Neither of these are seen.
2. Stabilized footage where both guns are obfuscated
This quickly becomes more damning in the case of a misfire existing. Shots one through four happen between 13-18 seconds. The obfuscation of the murderer is convenient for them, but the following is not: a) You see the officer who killed Pretti's arm move at the precise moment the first shot is fired, b) you see a very short muzzle blast (that COULD also be someone's breath, but it's very limited compared to all of the other breath seen in this video. Why? Because your breath has a gigantic humidity differential between freezing, dry winter air outside) and c) Pretti clearly immediately goes from being huddled reeling in pain from pepper spray and being beat like a clubbed seal to jerking up at the exact moment and reaching for his back.
3. Audio extracted from the stabilized video is impossible consistent between shots.
I went ahead and pulled the waveforms from the video in #2 and posted them above. a) You see shots 1, 2, 3, and 4 are nearly all identical. b) When the first shot is taken, there is exactly ONE person obscuring the camera for the murder weapon, and TWO TO THREE (depending on how you wanna count the half-kneeling idiot), and c) the SIG is currently facing downward to the ground. The chances that the sig could have fired a shot from that position relative to the camera microphone that sounded identical to the subsequent three shots.
I went ahead and plugged it into an LLM for fun, to see if it agreed with my above waveform analysis.
Are they the same gun, or is the first shot different? Based on spectral shape + energy envelope (i.e., how the “bang” is distributed across frequencies and how it decays), the pattern looks like this:
Shot #1 (13.77 s), Shot #3 (15.57 s), and Shot #4 (15.94 s) are quite consistent with each other. They have very similar “boom/crack balance” and similarly short, sharp decay profiles.
Shot #2 (14.95 s) is the outlier.
It’s much quieter in the low/mid frequencies and is relatively dominated by higher-frequency content, which can happen if:it’s a different source (different gun / different muzzle blast profile), or
the sound is not a muzzle blast (e.g., a sharp secondary impulse, reflection/ricochet-type sound, or something closer to the mic), or
it’s the same gun but recorded under a very different propagation path (angle/occlusion) in a way that heavily filters out the “boom.”
So out of all of this, GPT seems to pick up that if any of the shots are significantly different, it's only #2. Since we physically see #2, 3, and 4, we can conclude that it is most likely the identical firearm of shot #1.
P.S. The video from armed socialists was linked to me by a dipshit Asmongold fan trying to prove this, so I had that specific video already on hand lmao
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