[Vendome]

You would think they would be better shooters as well.

They fired shots at a guy and didn’t hit him?

How is that possible?

The USSS had a sniper team with eyes on the suspect and they didn’t take him out?

How is that possible?

[God luvs America]

In this instance, lets be glad they didn’t take him out

[central_va]

My guess is the advance team shot offhand. Their goal was to get lead downrange and to make the sniper retreat. Killing him was secondary to saving the life of the protected party.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Likely a very quick shot, and they may not have had a good view of the target because he apparently was behind some concealment. They took the hinky shot anyway to disrupt him and alert others to the danger. In a different context, you might call it suppressive fire.

[silent majority rising]

Is it just me, or does this seem vaguely familiar with the Kennedy Assassination. If Oswald were a patsy and set up by the CIA by a cover story of going to the Soviet Union for a year, and going to Cuba, and then showing up at the Texas School Book Depository without knowledge of Kennedy’s route until the week of it. If the kill shots were from the Grassy knoll, how different it might have been had an aware Secret Service Agent notice the gun hanging out of a window and shot at it. Surely the shooters would have been scared off by those shots. And in the Trump Assassaination attempt, you have a useful idiot that has travelled to and spent time in Ukraine, had a prior history of gun violations, etc. Could the plan have involved a real sniper a thousand yards away, who would not have missed when Trump teed up his ball. I was in Dallas in 1963 and was aware of how much negative energy there was. Also, I knew the route because my Mother worked at an office bldg. that was just before he turned onto Commerce street. It seems VERY familiar to me, and I hope the FBI doesn’t bury it and actually find out the facts....Just sayin’.

[Leep]

Well, to be fair, Routh was standing behind a wire fence.

And because he was on the other side of a wire fence he was able to get away . He would have got away if not for the civilian who ID’d his car and plates

[Fireone]

Not sure they had eyes on the suspect. It says they saw the barrel of the rifle sticking through the fence.
They may not have actually seen his body?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Why was the SS not periodically walking the perimeter fence? No excuse.