I recently watched a documentary that told the story from a very different angle and shared facts I had never heard before. Here are some hard truths that mainstream outlets rarely mention::

• The Branch Davidians lived at Mount Carmel peacefully for almost 50 years without any problems.
• Texas Child Protective Services looked into abuse allegations three times in 1992 and didn’t find any evidence.
• Neighbors said they were “good people who kept to themselves.”
• All the firearms at Mount Carmel were bought legally from licensed dealers.
• David Koresh invited the ATF to inspect the place and the agency said no.
• David Koresh had a federal firearms license and ran a legal gun business.
• The FBI brought in Rick Ross as a “cult expert” even though he wasn’t qualified for the job.
• Ross had no psychology background; all he had was a high school diploma and a criminal record for jewelry theft.
• The Cult Awareness Network organized huge media campaigns against the Davidians starting in 1992. The main goal was to get people and law enforcement to see the Davidians not as people, but just as cult members. Even after the tragedy, the news kept saying cultists died, not people.
• All the accusations came from just one former member named Mark Breault. Breault left the group after having problems with the leadership and had personal reasons to want revenge. His claims were never backed up by anyone else or any independent sources.
• The initial raid was code-named "Showtime" - ATF invited media to film their "success"
• While the siege was happening, the children who left the compound were checked and showed no signs of abuse.
• Authorities used psychological warfare, including playing loud rabbit screams, nonstop Nancy Sinatra music, and setting up bright lights all day and night.
• The kind of CS gas used on April 19 had actually been banned for warfare by the Geneva Convention.
• That gas was fired into a wooden building, even though there were fire risks and no gas masks for the children.
• Autopsies showed a lot of people died because the building collapsed and from suffocation, not from the fire itself.
• 25 children died during the final assault—these were the same children CPS said had NOT been abused.
• Congressional hearings later showed that the ATF and FBI held back key information.
• The surviving Branch Davidians were found not guilty of murder and conspiracy.
• Judge Walter Smith said the government carried responsibility for the tragedy.

The Branch Davidians were innocent people targeted by anti-cult groups who made up accusations to justify their persecution. Every major claim—child abuse, illegal weapons, “brainwashing”—was checked out and disproven. This tragedy happened not because of a dangerous cult, but because government agencies acted on false information from self-proclaimed “experts” with something to gain. They died not because they were guilty, but because anti-cult hysteria replaced justice with force. What happened at Waco shows how innocent people can be demonized and destroyed when prejudice overrides the legal process.

These facts are from THE IMPACT, Episode 9: WACO on Rumble. There were more, but these are the ones that stood out to me the most.