After Orlando Shooting, ‘False Flag’ and ‘Crisis Actor’ Conspiracy Theories Surface. Photo After the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, Twitter brimmed with news reports of the carnage. But some posts on the massacre that claimed 49 lives also included a curious phrase: “false flag.” It was a code used by conspiracy theorists to signal their belief that the government had staged the massacre and the information the public was reading and hearing from the mainstream media was untrue. The victims in the shooting? They were “crisis actors” hired to promote the story as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the theory goes. It is easy to dismiss such beliefs as preposterous and to think of them as coming from a paranoid fringe of society that deeply distrusts the government, but such theories are pervasive.
The term false flag relates to naval warfare when a ship would fly a flag that would conceal its true identity as a way to lure an enemy closer. OPEN Graphic The phrase has even been used to doubt the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Police's Play-by-Play of Orlando Shooting Revealed: From 'Shots Fired' to 'Subject Down' The chaos, confusion and horror of what transpired in the deadly assault at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was further revealed in the moment-by-moment police narrative, made public today pursuant to a public records request from ABC News and other media outlets.
Today’s disclosure includes the police dispatch record, which provides a play-by-play of the June 12 mass shooting, from the first call reporting "shots fired" to the “subject down” notification three hours later. The first call came at 2:02:54 a.m. for “shots fired.” Seconds later, “shots still being fired.” In the next several minutes, police received multiple calls from inside Pulse. One woman reported “she is hiding [in a] closet"; the call taker could “hear shooting in the background.” Another caller was “whispering.” Six minutes after the shooting began, a call taker heard “someone screaming help” and police decided they were “sending a team in.”
Transcript: Orlando Shooter's Call With Police Dispatcher View gallery. Fire department disputes official reports of exit door blockage at Pulse. Text messages, emails and inspection reports raised issues Tuesday about whether all the exits were accessible and working the night of the Pulse nightclub shooting, but Orlando Fire officials insist that there were no fire code violations. In a text message exchange sent hours after the mass shooting to Fire Chief Roderick Williams, Orlando Fire Marshal Tammy Hughes says she saw a photo by a code enforcement officer the day of the shooting that shows a soda machine blocking the exit door.
She said "maybe one or two" exits were blocked. The date of the photo is not noted. Hughes also sent an e-mail to Williams that same day, saying that the "last company officer exit check was conducted on 5/21/16 which did indicate that a door was inoperable. It is not clear which door it was. " But hours after the documents were released on Tuesday, the fire department and a Pulse attorney disputed the official reports. On Tuesday, Lane said the comment on the report was also wrong. Orlando, FL - 911 Call Log Details Horror Of Orlando Shooting: 'My Caller Is No Longer Responding' FILE - FBI investigators arrive at the crime scene of a mass shooting at the Pulse night club in Orlando, Florida, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young Orlando, FL - Police dispatchers heard repeated gunfire, screaming and moaning from patrons of the Pulse nightclub who called to report that gunman Omar Mateen was opening fire inside the club, according to written logs Tuesday.
The first call of “shots fired” came in at 2:02 a.m. and the caller reported “multiple people down.” One caller said Mateen had gone upstairs where six people were hiding. Dispatchers heard up to 30 gunshots in the background at another point as callers screamed and moaned. “My caller is no longer responding, just an open line with moaning,” one dispatcher said in the report. Another dispatcher wrote, “Hearing gunshots closer, multiple people screaming.” A caller described Mateen as wearing a gray shirt and brown pants. “Saying he pledges to the Islamic State,” a dispatcher wrote at 2:40 a.m. Documents show chilling police calls, internal deliberations after Orlando shooting. From left, Orlando Police Chief John Mina, FBI special agent Ronald Hopper and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer during a news conference following the shooting at Pulse nightclub earlier this month. (John Raoux/AP) Authorities in Orlando released hundreds of pages of documents Tuesday connected to the massacre earlier this month at the Pulse nightclub, providing a more detailed look at law enforcement’s scramble to respond to a rapidly evolving situation and the internal deliberations that followed.
The documents include the email correspondence of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Police Chief John Mina, text exchanges between fire officials and planning, permitting and inspection records for Pulse. They also include records — described as an “incident narrative” in a police report — providing a grim outline of what happened after law enforcement officials received the first call of “shots fired” at 2:02 a.m. on June 12. [All of the documents released by Orlando authorities] national post-nation true. Judge: FBI Transcript Shows Nobody Died in Orlando Shooting Until SWAT Teams entered the Building. 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? Here's the official transcript. 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. Orlando shooting: 49 killed, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance. Orlando shooting 911 call logs reveal horrifying exchanges between victims and police. On Tuesday, the city of Orlando released hundreds of pages of documents detailing the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub earlier this month.
The documents include dispatch call logs, fire inspection records and messages between city officials. According to the call logs, Orlando police dispatch first received a call about shots fired at the LGBTQ nightclub just before 2:03 a.m. on June 12. After that, more calls came flooding in. Some of the first callers were hiding — one in a closet and one upstairs. Dispatchers could hear gunshots over the phone. RELATED: Orlando shooting victims ORLANDO, USA - JUNE 13: Pictures of one of the massacre victims left at a make shift memorial at Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, USA on June 13, 2016. Since he was a boy, Anthony Luis Laureano Disla loved to dance. Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon moved from Puerto Rico to Vero Beach, longtime friend Daniel Gmys-Casiano said, and was immediately promoted to manager at a shoe store. Enrique L. R.I.P. Orlando Shooting: Police Dispatch Records Illustrate Hours Before SWAT Team Sent In. Orlando Shooting: What Happened At The Pulse Nightclub Attack.
Vigils have been held around the country for the victims of the Orlando nightclub attack on June 12. Thousands of people, including Jennifer Ware (right) and Mary Ware, took part in a memorial in downtown Orlando a day after the massacre. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP Vigils have been held around the country for the victims of the Orlando nightclub attack on June 12. Thousands of people, including Jennifer Ware (right) and Mary Ware, took part in a memorial in downtown Orlando a day after the massacre.
David Goldman/AP It's been two weeks since a gunman ended the lives of 49 victims and injured dozens of others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Many details of the attack still aren't known. 'All Hell Broke Loose' The weekend had already started on a tragic note, with the death on Saturday morning of a former contestant on The Voice. At 2:09 a.m., a warning appeared on the club's Facebook page: "Everyone get out of pulse and keep running. " Many did.