"When they [the survivors] were finally taken out, they weren't trying to flip the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated. A tiny portion of it remained, capsized, the bow of the boat. They had no communications device. Certainly, they were unarmed,"
"I was told, 'hey, there had to be a reattack, because there were a couple folks who could still be in the fight. Access to radios. There was a link up point of another potential boat, drugs were still there. They were actively interacting with them,'"
"saw two survivors trying to flip a boat loaded with drugs bound for the United States back over so they could stay in the fight."
Surveillance video of U.S. military strikes on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 reportedly shows survivors who were incapacitated, unarmed, and without communications. Rep. Adam Smith called the footage deeply disturbing and said the survivors were not in a position to continue the fight, arguing that claims drugs survived the attack are hard to reconcile with what the video shows. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Sen. Tom Cotton described the circumstances differently, with Hegseth saying he was told survivors had radios and a possible link to another boat. Smith urged release of the video.
Read at ABC7 Los Angeles
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