Could it be as simple as incompatible comms? He was outside the perimeter so in local cops’ zone. Were/are their radios on same freqs as SS? Such things are often problems even today. Recall such issues with the search for Amelia Earhart !
Yeah the guy was saying they couldn’t get in so there was a lot of people going to that area to listen to him. There were local police that were told he was there. They had a video of the whole thing. And after he got off shots people were screaming he is turning towards us. Then I heard one shot that sounded suppressed. Looked like was side of his head so would make sense he would be turning to get back out of sight. Or I think the shooter didn’t realize they could see him since they didn’t do anything before he took his shots. They need to clean these mistakes up before next rally.
You are a supposed highly trained, high paid security professional working for the state of the class US Secret Service. SOP is to lock down any roofs with ladder access within sniper range of a high risk target.
However, magically, yesterday you total forgot to secure a roof top 150 yards from the opposition party’s political candidate. A roof top that also had line of site to the egress path the candidate would be rushed down in case of an emergency. Magically this random nut just happened to crawl up onto that roof and get off 8 shots at said high value target before you even responded.
If these guys out here can see the obvious flaws in the security set up here, why did the highly paid, highly trained people running the SS miss all of them?
Remember, not matter what assets they use, Secret Service is wholly responsible for the security plan for these events. Trying to blame shift and mislead is pure nonsense. Secret Service is 100% responsible to make sure things like “incompatible coms” and weak to nonresistant security perimeters do not happen.