Well, because they are acting, role playing. And they sometimes use wannabe and out of work actors. Our Sheriff's dept. and Search and Rescue use groups like that to play dead, scream, do earthquake drills, etc. When they can't get enough volunteers, or it's a big training thing, they hire. I don't know a damn thing about the guy in this particular business, but such businesses do exist and have for a couple of decades.
Then people started surmising that lots of incidents on the news (shootings and such) were fake, and used crisis actors. People tried to argue, for example, that the Boston Marathon was a fake, and all the dead and wounded were really "crisis actors." So, make up your own mind. Here's a police training website that talks about how some depts. use them in training.
Well, because they are acting, role playing. And they sometimes use wannabe and out of work actors. Our Sheriff's dept. and Search and Rescue use groups like that to play dead, scream, do earthquake drills, etc. When they can't get enough volunteers, or it's a big training thing, they hire. I don't know a damn thing about the guy in this particular business, but such businesses do exist and have for a couple of decades.
Then people started surmising that lots of incidents on the news (shootings and such) were fake, and used crisis actors. People tried to argue, for example, that the Boston Marathon was a fake, and all the dead and wounded were really "crisis actors." So, make up your own mind. Here's a police training website that talks about how some depts. use them in training.
https://www.policeone.com/active-shooter/articles/what-are-crisis-actors-9QxVWKHi0LDADfir/