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
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Do not ascribe to incompetence that which can better be ascribed to malice.
Why didn’t they send someone on the roof to look for him?
“...saying he was acting suspicious...”
They were probably looking for a definition of suspicious. That’s one of those words in legal jargon that can be confusing and they lost their copy of Black’s Law Dictionary.
wy69
“...saying he was acting suspicious...”
They were probably looking for a definition of suspicious. That’s one of those words in legal jargon that can be confusing and they lost their copy of Black’s Law Dictionary.
wy69
This whole thing stinks . Everyone in that hick police department should be let go. Now we see the real Keystone cops in action. What a joke, the SS shouldn’t have to ask permission to take out a bad guy.
Why do you ask?
I wish they wouldn’t use the word “sharpshooter” because that could be a sniper OR a counter-sniper. Erik Prince says it was a counter-sniper on the water tower who killed the would-be assassin on the rooftop. I don’t know what he uses as evidence of that. The one gal witness makes it sound like there was another would-be assassin at the water tower and a counter-sniper killed him. But who had their sights pointed that direction, and when was that shot fired?
It seems like there is more to this story than meets the eye. Where were all the counter-snipers?
And complicating it all is that I don’t trust the FBI to tell us the truth about anything.
I really hope Comer’s committee can get some real answers that make sense.
Agree going to be CYA stories for the next five years about they were doing the job.
After the fact stories of failure never sell.
Crooks graduated from a community college. He would have needed a minimum 3.25 GPA for Pitt Engineering - but not an SAT score.
https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/first-year/transfer-students/transfer-students/
https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/first-year/transfer-students/external-transfer-students/
He turned down Pitt to attend Robert Morris in the fall. That school requires a minimum 3.0 GPA to transfer into engineering. No SAT score required.
https://www.rmu.edu/admissions/transfer/requirements
No doubt he was book smart. But, was he so brilliant that he could outsmart everyone - Secret Service and the police?
All the red flags were there, and they did nothing. Either they were incompetent, or it was a conspiracy.
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