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Senator Sanders, in his “Senate Sketches #1045″, admits he didn’t see Bishop hit Barron, but he says he has watched the video of it. He must have seen a different video than I just looked at again several times, because he said, “As Barron prepared to walk away, Bishop swung a powerful right fist…..”.
I can’t see any indication the Barron was preparing to walk away.