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Local SWAT team speaks out for the first time (Butler, Pa.)
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Posted on 07/29/2024 9:38:20 AM PDT by hardspunned

Text messages between local snipers show they noticed Thomas Matthew Crooks nearly two hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

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They’re trying not to become patsies, too.
1 posted on 07/29/2024 9:38:20 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Local SWAT team trying not to be thrown under the bus.


2 posted on 07/29/2024 9:40:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse ( "Let's go, Brenda!")
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No one likes to be thrown under the bus, especially by fellow (brothers) in the fraternity.


3 posted on 07/29/2024 9:42:00 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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If they don’t speak up the Administration will frame them. It is apparent that they were trying to engineer an assassination and the boy was a patsy.


4 posted on 07/29/2024 9:45:32 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Not quite on topic, but I just got subjected to a Harris commercial on YouTube that opens with: "The former president is a threat..."

But, you know, nobody ought to, ummmmmmmm, do anything ...

5 posted on 07/29/2024 9:53:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It will be Michelle.)
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They were asked if their concerns were be relayed properly...One of them says, “We didn’t know, we just assumed the command did something with it.”

WTF? 2 hours later the suspect is still wandering around and it wasn’t obvious to any of these people? These people are cops? Good grief!


6 posted on 07/29/2024 9:55:12 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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So, the locals saw somebody who looked suspicious. Yet they did nothing. Even though they had no communication with SS, why did they not take it upon themselves to speak to Crooks? Seems to me if they had walked up to Crooks and started a conversation, this assassination attempt might not have happened.


7 posted on 07/29/2024 9:55:54 AM PDT by bohica1
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With that crew there, that Katursky sure could have had a marathon instead of such a short sprint. I watched GMA just to see it (Stephanopoulous isn’t getting any younger, BTW) and it was darn close to a nothing burger.

There weren’t any teasers that indicated more was to come or on a podcast somewhere. What a let-down!


8 posted on 07/29/2024 10:00:00 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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Even though they had no communication with SS

Hours go by watching the assassin and we're supposed to believe the locals working with the SS had no communications between each other? They were working in conjunction with the SS to provide security/protection for Trump, but were unable to communicate with them? I'm not buying any of this bull shit. Not for a second.

9 posted on 07/29/2024 10:06:04 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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The locals had enough time to walk around until they found a Secret Service or Homeland Security person and tap them on the shoulder and whisper in their ear.

Lol.


10 posted on 07/29/2024 10:08:38 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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They were supposed to have a briefing with SS when they arrived, but one of the SWAT members say, “That never happened”. Never happened?

No sale...All this reeks so bad.


11 posted on 07/29/2024 10:09:52 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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"So, the locals saw somebody who looked suspicious. Yet they did nothing. Even though they had no communication with SS, why did they not take it upon themselves to speak to Crooks?"

It is the responsibility of the SS to cooperate and coordinate with local law enforcement agencies covering these political events. I want to know who in the SS was in charge of coordinating the Butler rally, and why that person hasn't been called by Congress for questioning. This person should not be protected or hidden from public view.

The Butler County D.A. is in opposition to the State Police Commissioner's testimony that the snipers in the building left their posts to search for the unknown person who was possibly a threat. We now know that one of those snipers went home early, with no explanation of why, or if the SS was notified of his leaving. The second officer left the building, but forgot his security card to get back into the building (complete incompetence), and the third officer had to leave his post on the second floor to open the door for the dumbass who left without his card to get back into the building.

I tried to watch this video, but when they kept saying "We had to assume...", I closed it out. You don't f-ing assume anything when it comes to your job as a law enforcement officer. I was taught a long time ago that the only stupid question, was the one you didn't ask. These men were deficient in their duties. You can't just relay a message, and expect it to be acted upon. "We assumed" is a piss-poor excuse for not following up on your responsibilities to make sure something was being done to locate this potential threat. Try using the excuse "we assumed" in a court of law a-holes, and see how far it will get you.

12 posted on 07/29/2024 10:16:36 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Butler SWAT; “We didn’t have ANY communication with the Secret Service until after the shooting.”

I’ve read this multiple times and still can’t believe it.

After the assassination attempt and killing of innocents, did one of the local SWAT members run 140 yards to the stage to exchange phone numbers with them?


13 posted on 07/29/2024 10:20:48 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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"If they don’t speak up the Administration will frame them."

They were wrong when they said they "assumed" their message was being checked out. I would have been embarrassed to have made that statement. They never heard of the rule: "Don't assume anything, because you'll make an ass out of you and me."

In enforcement, you can't "assume" anything. You have to follow up to make sure. You can't issue a warning, and "assume" it is being investigated properly. It's your responsibility to make sure something is being done on the other end. You just don't hand that shit off to an unknown entity, and then forget it. Making the claim that they "assumed," shows me just how deficient they were when it came to observing security procedures.

14 posted on 07/29/2024 10:24:51 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Bookmark


15 posted on 07/29/2024 10:30:19 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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"I’ve read this multiple times and still can’t believe it."

This is either sheer incompetence on both SS and local law enforcement, or it was plain criminal malfeasance. Whoever in the SS was in charge for coordinating this event with the locals, along with whoever from the local agencies was in charge at the site were both lacking in their duties. This $hit sounds too much like the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, and 9/11 when we heard during Congressional Hearings that the FBI and the CIA were not communicating with each other regarding terrorist threats.

16 posted on 07/29/2024 10:31:39 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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And it was not just any candidate, it was the most threatened president/former president in U.S. history, hated in D.C., and all over the world, one who had a price tag on his head by radical leaders of foreign countries, religious extremists, fanatics etc..

I flat out refuse to accept all of this was just a mistake or whoopsie. No way!


17 posted on 07/29/2024 10:45:51 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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"I flat out refuse to accept all of this was just a mistake or whoopsie. No way!"

There were way too many security breaches, and deficiencies that day by both SS and local police agencies, to make me believe it wasn't done on purpose. There is no such things as coincidences occurring at one place, in such a short period of time. Nobody did their job in the run-up to the event, just prior to it starting, or during it. That many cluster-f*cks don't happen by accident.

18 posted on 07/29/2024 10:53:49 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: hardspunned

The Deep State Bus

Gimme a “ho” if you got your funky bus fare
Ho! Ho! Ho! <—— Insert pic of Kamala here

[Verse 1]
There’s a Deep State bus coming down the street
Moving pretty fast so kinda shuffle your feet (shk-a-shk)
Get on the bus, pay your fare
Then tell the driver that you’re going to a Deep State Affair
Fe Fi Fo Fum
Well I’ll be darned, here it comes
The Deep State Bus is on the street
You’d better get off the curb, move your feet


19 posted on 07/29/2024 10:58:33 AM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit authority)
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I’ll play the devil’s advocate on this one. The shooter was on private property. Is it legal to light up a SS protected person with a range finder from private property? It is illegal to so with a drone. Did local LE have any basis to conduct searches outside of the defined SS security zone and on private property?


20 posted on 07/29/2024 12:00:46 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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