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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: Biblebelter

Do not ascribe to incompetence that which can better be ascribed to malice.


81 posted on 07/16/2024 10:32:08 PM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Why didn’t they send someone on the roof to look for him?


82 posted on 07/16/2024 11:17:47 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: AnthonySoprano

“...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


83 posted on 07/16/2024 11:37:34 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: AnthonySoprano

“...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


84 posted on 07/16/2024 11:37:34 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: DallasBiff

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.


85 posted on 07/17/2024 12:33:34 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: butterdezillion
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'm certain there were at least two gunmen.

In the video below, one witness at 23:00 states, "They had been right by the fence where the other shooter was. There was one I heard in the water tower. There was one by the fence."

Another witness at 23:20 says, "The sharpshooter shot to the left. He killed the gentleman in the water tower here."

The water tower is Trump's "grassy knoll"! New details emerge | Redacted with Clayton Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_35VaJ9JXI

86 posted on 07/17/2024 2:01:53 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: butterdezillion
Do you know what direction the water tower was from everything else?

In the link I sent you, the site layout is at 8:20 of the video. The water tower is about 150 degrees to Trump's podium and appears to be about 250-300 yards away. By comparison, the shooter on the rooftop is 180 degrees to Trump and about 150 yards away.

87 posted on 07/17/2024 2:58:00 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Romulus
Do you buy the narrative factory called Associated Press that is working diligently to support the official narrative? There are likely some disinformation plants working to plant outlandish stories in the conservative and alt-right media. However, the narrative that the Secret Service bungled so egregiously that and some young man just happened to have a gun and a ladder and just happened to find this location is less believable than the story behind Jeffrey Epstein's "suicide".
88 posted on 07/17/2024 3:18:04 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

Why do you ask?


89 posted on 07/17/2024 6:20:48 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

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.


90 posted on 07/17/2024 7:40:35 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: DallasBiff

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.


91 posted on 07/17/2024 7:49:49 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


92 posted on 07/17/2024 8:18:10 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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