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Sources: Law enforcement was searching for Thomas Crooks before he shot Trump
WTAE Channel 4 Pittsburgh ^ | 7/16/24 | Marcie Ciprian

Posted on 07/16/2024 6:13:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 has learned from multiple sources that Thomas Crooks was spotted at the rally, photographed as suspicious and officers were actively looking for him when he made his way onto the roof and fired at former President Donald Trump.

Sources say the Secret Service was aware something was wrong, and the snipers were in position, but the pitch of the roof Crooks was on prevented them from seeing the 20-year-old until he moved to the peak and fired his weapon

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: crime; crooks; pennsylvania; roof; rooftop; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump
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To: iowamomforfreedom

Read my later comments on this thread then buzz off, Karen.


41 posted on 07/16/2024 6:41:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Classic!


42 posted on 07/16/2024 6:42:04 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: DallasBiff

12 year old kids have drones - surely the SS can afford one or two.


43 posted on 07/16/2024 6:42:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: DallasBiff
They were looking for a large anomaly in their security posture and they let President Trump go out to speak?

Or, if he was already speaking they didn't form a wall around him and escort him to safe quarters until the security anomaly had been resolved?

Seriously???

44 posted on 07/16/2024 6:44:35 PM PDT by politicket
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To: politicket
Hey politicket, I'd like to hear about that video you posted the night it happened.
45 posted on 07/16/2024 6:47:19 PM PDT by chud
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To: shotgun

I thought the counter sniper behind Trump aimed and hit him straight in the mouth due to his teeth missing.


46 posted on 07/16/2024 6:48:26 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t believe a word of this.


47 posted on 07/16/2024 6:48:46 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: bigbob

If they thought the pitch of the roof was too steep despite SS snipers on a steeper roof And they know that building was vulnerable And they knew of an Iranian threat then congress needs to ask why no drone was deployed..especially after they lost sight of a suspicious guy.

Bad actors are looking at how easy it was to do this.


48 posted on 07/16/2024 6:50:26 PM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Could be. Again we’ll know for sure when the autopsy report us released in 50 years.


49 posted on 07/16/2024 6:53:35 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: DallasBiff

But the “thunking” on the metal roof of the building the keystone kops were in didn’t alarm them?


50 posted on 07/16/2024 6:55:45 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: DallasBiff
the pitch of the roof Crooks was on prevented them from seeing the 20-year-old until he moved to the peak

... And even then they jerked off for over a minute until he fired...

51 posted on 07/16/2024 6:56:41 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: DallasBiff

And Cheryle said she didn’t post SS agents on the roof because it was sloped... What anGD POS liar. Perfect for the Chomo administration. We are suppose to all NOT see the two snipers on the SLANTED ROOF!


52 posted on 07/16/2024 7:00:38 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Texas Eagle
Source, please.

The first known source for this detailed report was a series of postings on 4chan on Sunday at 16:03.

It smells like disinformation to me or a nasty prank. At least a report to be rated with a very low probability of being true. Beware of confirmation bias.

There is a name that goes with this report ("Jonathan Willis"). I have not been able to track that name to any real person that could have been at that rally. Maybe someone else with more time and better resources can track down that supposed officer.

I have been surprised before by unlikely reports that turned out to be true.

Let's see if the name turns up again.

53 posted on 07/16/2024 7:03:33 PM PDT by flamberge (The difference between wild conspiracy theory and proven fact is about six months.)
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To: Biblebelter

The only problem with that theory is why would you rely on a 20-year-old goofball? Oswald had skill.


54 posted on 07/16/2024 7:07:17 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Texas Eagle

That’s BS from Cheatle in her response, an incompetent DEI hire. And that dumbass tramp reports to Mayorkas. January can’t get fast enough and marks the first time millions of us who look forward to winter.


55 posted on 07/16/2024 7:11:00 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just giving my opinion. Like everyone else here.


56 posted on 07/16/2024 7:14:17 PM PDT by iowamomforfreedom
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To: DallasBiff

There were supposedly three sharpshooters inside the very building he shot from.
Why wasn’t one of them stationed on top of that very building? It was an obvious line of sight position that should have been covered.


57 posted on 07/16/2024 7:16:13 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: alternatives?

Plausible deniability. The spooks know how to recruit young loner goofball types that like guns like this kid and groom them to do crazy stuff like this. The spooks know the kid will get taken out and the spooks are safe from getting caught.


58 posted on 07/16/2024 7:16:23 PM PDT by aklurker
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To: shotgun

Boy ain’t that the truth.

There was some conversation on the Q thread about the ears of Crooks and the guy Roger Stone’s sources said was the shooter, versus the ears of the guy in the photo of the dead sniper. It was about whether the ears had holes in the ears for holding some kind of jewelry. I can’t remember the word for it and I had never even heard of it before, but the photo of the dead sniper had ears that seemed to better match the guy Roger Stone talked about - an Antifa dude who had been arrested for violence at an anti-Trump rally.

I’m not good at analyzing photos or facial features so I didn’t pay much attention.

But I’m wondering if there were 2 guys who looked similar who were both involved and if that’s why there is so much confusion over how and when the shooter got up there, etc. GP had a report where a news station had sources saying that somebody was reported on the roof 30 minutes before the shooting started. But another one had Crooks on the ground at that time.

There were 2 vehicles there that were associated with Crooks - one small car that Crooks drove and a van that had AZ license plates. Crooks asked for Saturday off because he had something important but told his employer he would be back on Sunday. It’s been speculated that the van was supposed to have explosives detonated to create a distraction allowing Crooks to escape. But how did Crooks get both vehicles there? His home was what? 40 miles away? Why did he even have a van with AZ license plates?

I can’t help but wonder if the Antifa guy was on Discord with Crooks and met offline to plan this whole thing, and they somehow worked it together.

I’ve been thinking about all this stuff all day today. My brain is fried. I just really feel that we need to see the truth come out about this whole thing, break wide open the deadly, corrupt stinking corpse that is the Biden regime, and his handlers who turn everything in the country and world to crap.

Anyway, I’m wondering if what the folks on the Q thread was thinking was a hole for jewelry is the same thing you’re thinking is an exit wound. The conversation on the other thread is around here, if you’d like to see what’s being said and chip in: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4251335/posts?page=184#184


59 posted on 07/16/2024 7:17:08 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: DallasBiff

Like my brother-in-law used to say...”they couldn’t find their a$$ with both hands”


60 posted on 07/16/2024 7:17:29 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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