Orlando police have
released a transcript of the 911 call where Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and said the attack was retribution for airstrikes against the terrorist group.
The first phone call comes at 2:35 a.m., when the shooter says "
this is Mateen. I want to let you know I'm in Orlando and I did the shooting."
He then refuses to say his full name, says that he killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in response to U.S. military presence in Iraq and Syria, and says that he should be called "soldier of god."
A crisis negotiator in later phone calls at 2:48 a.m. and 2:56 a.m. tried to get information about what weapons Mateen had and whether there was anyone else with him.
Mateen, who said that Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was his "homeboy," claimed that he had a bomb-rigged car outside the gay club, though no such explosives were found.
He makes contradictory comments about wearing a suicide vest, first saying that he had one like "what they used in France" but then claiming that it was undetectable by bomb-sniffing dogs and later saying that it was a vest "to go out to a wedding."
A second negotiator's attempting to talk to Mateen refers to him by his first name, and the suspect respond that the precise event that led to his rampage was the killing of ISIS leader Abu Wahid in May.
The last phone call ended at 3:25 a.m., with the shooter saying he was annoyed by the police calls and answering questions by saying "no. no. no. no. no. no. no."
A police tactical team would end up waiting until 5:05 a.m. before storming the building and killing Mateen.
The 911 call and dozens of other calls made by civilians to authorities the morning of the shooting were released after a lawsuit from media groups claiming that they were necessary to evaluate police response to the massacre.The city of Orlando had originally opposed the release and said that the calls would not fall under public records laws, but the FBI, which is investigating the shooting, said that the calls would not impact its case.
Comment: Some questions to ask are, first of all, why now? Why did it take the Orlando police over three months to release these transcripts? Why did it require a lawsuit from media groups, as the article mentions - to compel the police to finally release it? And Is there anything in the transcripts which suggest that the horrible events in Orlando are not as they were presented?
In a word, yes. From
this article we learn that no one at Pulse nightclub died until 5:13 in the morning:
What should have been front page news everywhere, somehow got buried amid the official narrative we were given about the Orlando shooting. Judge Andrew Napolitano told FOX News that an FBI transcript indicated that no one died until 05:13am Sunday morning when the police SWAT teams entered the building.
"Here's what is news in the summary - nobody died until 05:13 in the morning, when the SWAT team entered. Prior to that no one had been killed. The 53 that were injured, and the 49 that were murdered all met their fates at the time of, and during, the police entry into the building," Judge Napolitano said.
Consider that the narrative we have been given was that Omar Mateen entered the club around 02:00am on Sunday morning to begin his killing spree, so why was no one actually killed until 05:13am, over three hours later?
So, this makes one question why the 911 call transcripts are being redacted and why the people are not being told the truth across the media about what really took place.
We have been told that 5 to 6 police officers were already in the club for 15 to 20 minutes or more prior to the SWAT teams' entering.
So, what is the truth here? Some claim that 05:13am is the time of death, but how is that when that suspect was not even down until 05:15am? Could it be that some of the people in the club were shot by the SWAT team or by Mateen? With nearly 50 people dead and more wounded, how was Mateen able to get off that many shots? I'm really curious.
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f that was not enough, police officers have even admitted that they may have killed some of the people. WFAA reports:
Monday, Orlando Police Chief John Mina and other law enforcement officers offered new details about the shooting, including the possibility that some victims may have been killed by officers trying to save them.
"I will say this, that's all part of the investigation," Mina said. "But I will say when our SWAT officers, about eight or nine officers, opened fire, the backdrop was a concrete wall, and they were being fired upon."
A law enforcement source close to the investigation who asked not to be named said a crowd of up to 300 people and the complex layout of the dance club may have resulted in some patrons being struck by gunfire from officers.
And if this doesn't jive with the lone crazed Islamic gunman theory that's been shoved in our faces, or at least the idea that Mateen wasn't responsible for all the deaths, there is
also this from one of the eyewitnesses at the club during the time of the shooting:
"There were so many (shots), at least 40... I saw two guys and it was constant, like 'pow, pow, pow'."
Sounds like another opportunist patsy to me. That's not to say he didn't do something stupid, violent of murderous, just that the 'authorities' want to use if for their own ends. Typical.