Suspect Side Stepping to avoid Camera angles

Someone posted tonight asking if the hood slips off the suspect’s head momentarily. Watching that video repeatedly and slowing it down made me realize:

When the suspect starts heading West b4 he begins to march across 54th St. and onto the sidewalk in front of the Hilton, he’s not WALKING but rather he is intentionally side stepping- so the front of his body is facing south towards the Hilton, but he is moving west down the street in a sliding motion. Once you know to look for it, it’s obvious.

The straps of his backpack are facing the Hilton the whole time, rather than giving us a side view.

You can see his feet cross in front of each other in a sideways progression. (picture in comments)

What he’s doing is intentionally keeping the cameras on the building to his right from any front angles- so the only cameras in front of him are the Hilton entrance overhead eyeball cams (picture in comments) and a single parking entrance camera. (Picture in comments) I believe it is the parking entrance camera that caught this footage in the link- because we can clearly see the overhead awning, of the entrance so it it’s not those cameras.

This sideways progression brings him to the exact location where he wants to walk across 54th to make his approach… it is precise and deliberate.

He approaches at an angle, knowing the 2 cameras above him cannot catch his face at this angle. He continues down the sidewalk…knowing there are no other cameras above him or facing him as he walks towards BT & finishes the task. because only one side of that overhead awning has cameras the other side is empty . (Photo in comments)

I apologize if this has been discussed before- I am just fascinated by the sideways motion he was so careful to do to line himself up with his approach.