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"‘He has a gun!’ An eyewitness details what happened when the FBI came to a Provo neighborhood
Deseret News ^ | August 10, 2023 | Kyle Dunphey

Posted on 08/10/2023 12:25:10 PM PDT by devere

“Craig Robertson, come out with your hands up! This is the FBI.”

That’s what residents of a quaint, suburban neighborhood pushed up against Provo Canyon near the BYU campus say they woke up to in the early morning hours Wednesday.

“It sounded like it was coming from inside my house,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified.

What followed was a barrage of gunshots. Moments later, authorities carried the overweight, elderly man out of his house, placed him on the sidewalk and tried, unsuccessfully, to render first aid, according to the witness. Several neighbors said his body remained on the concrete for two hours as blood soaked through a white sheet paramedics placed over him.

The FBI has not released details about the shooting. The neighbor’s eyewitness account provides the clearest picture so far of the fatal encounter between authorities and 75-year-old Craig Robertson.

After the sound of about six gunshots, “you hear them yell ‘shots fired, shots fired. He has a gun!’ And then a whole bunch more shots,” said the neighbor. There was such a loud barrage they were unable to tell how many times the agents inside Robertson’s home fired. “They were all shooting at the same time ... and at that point in time, I was in get-my-kid mode.”

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1 posted on 08/10/2023 12:25:10 PM PDT by devere
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To: devere

Uh huh


2 posted on 08/10/2023 12:26:16 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: devere

This is why when people call them the Gestapo, it’s getting harder and harder to argue against the claim.


3 posted on 08/10/2023 12:28:13 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: devere
The local police couldn't have knocked on his door and taken him into custody, to face the FBI at the local police station? This is how Waco began.

The FBI just made every on-line idiot with a gun collection into a paranoid reactionary, hearing SWAT teams at night.

But then again, that's exactly what the feds want.

4 posted on 08/10/2023 12:32:52 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: devere

I’ll believe the FBI version of events when I see two or more body cam recordings.

If even then.


5 posted on 08/10/2023 12:33:20 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Tagline for sale.)
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To: devere

are they certain they didn’t hear, “Randy Weaver come out with your hands up! This is the FBI.”


6 posted on 08/10/2023 12:33:31 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: devere

Why has the FBI not stated he started shooting at them?

Not once have I seen that reported.


7 posted on 08/10/2023 12:33:34 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: devere
'He has a gun!'

I think that's standard procedure for FBI to yell whenever they break into a house.
8 posted on 08/10/2023 12:33:59 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: devere

It really is way past time to disband the entire FBI and exiled all of management to Afghanistan


9 posted on 08/10/2023 12:34:20 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: devere
Message delivered.

Do you get it, MAGADONIANS?

10 posted on 08/10/2023 12:34:41 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: devere

....janet reno was not available for comment.


11 posted on 08/10/2023 12:35:28 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sounds like a Premeditated EXECUTION.

I don’t give a damn what body cam shows. FBI has proven they are untrustworthy. Elderly Overweight Man. WOW, FBI must have been scared sh!tless and needed to unload on him with AUTOMATIC WEAPONS


12 posted on 08/10/2023 12:35:34 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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No worries the FBI will be coming for FR members soon, but they will surrender and land in prison...


13 posted on 08/10/2023 12:35:49 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Eagles6

Exactly.


14 posted on 08/10/2023 12:36:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: blackdog

I read of an earlier report where it stated the FBI had already previously interviewed this character. Lead one to believe this was not his first rodeo regarding threats made.

However, the FBI has a solid secure record of lying so there’s really no way to know at this point what the truth is.


15 posted on 08/10/2023 12:37:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Tagline for sale.)
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To: devere
I don't believe a word of it at face value. The FBI has shown itself to be totally corrupt and devoid of moral, ethical, or professional values. At this point in time, I view them no differently from the Stasi or the KGB.

"...After the sound of about six gunshots, “you hear them yell ‘shots fired, shots fired. He has a gun!’ And then a whole bunch more shots,” said the neighbor..."

So, if there is video, not created and stored by the FBI, that shows the guy with a gun, with gunshots coming from the house first, I will 95% believe this.

But the FBI SWAT team screaming "He has a gun" is not any indicator the guy actually had a gun, was pointing it at them, or firing the gun.

And the fact that I, as an American citizen, would take this stance about the FBI is not on me. Not a bit. It is ALL on the FBI and DOJ.

All of it.

16 posted on 08/10/2023 12:39:12 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: devere
After the sound of about six gunshots, “you hear them yell ‘shots fired, shots fired.

Cops do this every time they discharged firearms as well. This does not mean the old man was shooting at them.

In fact, there are no reports from the FBI that Robertson started shooting at them. Not one.

17 posted on 08/10/2023 12:40:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: OHPatriot

Meanwhile Antifa can burn cities to the ground and they get rewarded with keys to the city


18 posted on 08/10/2023 12:41:11 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: devere

Another 6am wake up call from your friendly neighborhood gestapo.


19 posted on 08/10/2023 12:41:12 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: devere

said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified.

/\

Glowie.

I see.media didn’t interveiw and show the other names that were perfectly willing to be “ identified”

( and who self identified on social media )

Yup,,, glowie imho.


20 posted on 08/10/2023 12:41:18 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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