The Butler Body Cam Footage

American Thinker ^ | 14 Aug, 2024 | J.R. Dunn

[MtnClimber]

Police body cam footage from July 13th was released late last week to little response, and has largely remained under the radar in the days since.

This is not surprising, since the last thing the legacy media wants is for people to focus on this historic instance in which President Trump was confronted face-to-face by death and answered like a roaring lion.

There’s a lot that can be learned from this footage. There has been plenty of speculation since the shooting, some of it sound, some of it absolutely off the wall. F

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Back to Butler: what does the new footage tell us? Simply put, it tells us that chaos was queen on July 13th. Following the shooting, there is absolutely no sign of planning, procedure, or even simple competence among the law enforcement personnel present. Evidently, fate simply grabbed a bucketful of dull-normals and sprinkled them over the rally site. For the first few minutes, cops from several forces are milling around next to the building used by the shooter asking questions and getting no rational answers. There is some speculation on how to clamber up to the roof with no action taken.

Eventually, somebody shows up with a telescoping ladder, which, it becomes immediately evident, nobody knows how to use. Instead of pulling it out to full length, one of the cops braces it atop a very unstable plastic cabinet against the wall of the building, apparently intending to use it as a stepladder. Needless to say, this doesn’t work out, and the cops abandon the ladder in favor of milling around further. It’s around this point that the cop wearing the camera announces that he’d mentioned this very building to the Secret Service. He repeats this several times.

[9YearLurker]

I’ll never forget reading the news story about a city (Bridgeport, CT) screening new cop hires for intelligence: The idea was that those who were too smart for the job got bored quickly and were likely to leave the field too soon after the investment in their training.

[scott says]

The whole situation was seriously messed up==I blame the secret service for most of it-—they definitely were up to NO Good.

Watch this—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMkDmV-TfA

[rxh4n1]

“ALL of her phone calls, and read ALL of her text messages.’

Yes. All it might take is one to not give the right orders at the right time. Or not follow up to ensure they were followed. It would be hard to tell if it was malice or incompetence.