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Posted on 07/14/2024 12:43:09 PM PDT by McGruff
Not long before shots rang out, rally goers noticed a man climbing to the top of a roof of a nearby building and warned local law enforcement, according to two law enforcement officials.
One officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward former President Donald Trump, and that’s when the U.S. Secret Service counter snipers shot him, said the officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
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Yep.
Maybe the loner hid there much earlier. You are supposed to have people on every “peak”
Unbelievable! This story smells fishy!
Makes me wonder when the perp really wanted to start shooting. He was probably spooked by the officer seeing him and decided he had to start shooting at that moment..who knows when was the actual shooting spree supposed to take place
He hit Trump twice.
One just missed an eye shot and a shot in the vest
That's awful presumptive of you. It could've been a woman, transgender, cis or non-binary born to eat donuts.
Advance teams sweep for that and then the obvious security risk locations are secured for the duration of the event.
Saw video online of the female secret service agent she had no clue how to take the damn gun out of the holster..oy vey
Climbing a ladder while holding a pistol in one hand must go deep against safety training.
1) When was the last time you saw any sort of police officer carrying a revolver?
2) Have you ever attempted to climb a ladder while holding a handgun of any sort?
Just curious.
Had she simply yelled "gun" the fire chief would still be alive. If anyone could even hear her tiny voice.
It looks like when Trump turned his head that one movement saved his life. Otherwise he would have been hit right in the temple.
Has anyone seen what type of rifle was used? At first it was reported to be a .22 lr but that doesn’t seem right.
If that's the case, then the security failure is even worse than it first appeared to be. You're supposed to have total control of the ingress and egress of the area you are in charge of. That a shooter could have already been on that roof prior to the rally starting, and no-one knew it, there is no excuse for that whatsoever. According to the timeline, the shooting occurred within 9 minutes of President Trump taking the stage. That means the shooter was already there well ahead of that time, had his weapon set up and was already taking aim. That means a gigantic security failure, which I firmly believe was deliberate.
ErikDPrince
@realErikDPrince
Hopefully after the tragedy yesterday in Butler PA we can all recognize that unaccountable bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans.
Donald J Trump is alive today solely due to a bad wind estimate by an evil would be assassin.
As the graphics show the full value wind of just 5mph was enough to displace the unconfirmed but likely light 55 grain bullet two inches from DJT’s intended forehead to his ear.
DJT was not saved by USSS brilliance. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of arriving bullet (supersonic) to the boom of muzzle blast (sonic).
The law enforcement sniper (unclear if USSS) in newsreels was clearly overwhelmed as his face came off his rifle instead of doing his job to kill the shooter. Clearly they were watching the shooter but apparently have a no “first shot” policy. The only positive action was an apparent 488yd shot by one USSS sniper which dispatched the assassin but after the assassin launched at least 5 rounds, wounding DJT and killing and severely others in the crowd.
In my old business of providing Diplomatic Security in two active war zones we were expected to execute the basics or we would be fired. Clearly USSS failed at the basics of a secure perimeter and once shots were fired their extraction was clumsy and left DJT highly exposed to follow on attacks. It looked like they had never drilled together because those responses should be effectively autonomic. Will there be accountability? That’s not the Washington way.
Unserious and unworthy people in positions of authority got us to this near disaster. Merit and execution must be the only deciding factors in hiring and leadership, not the social engineering priority of the day. Sadly nothing in Washington reflects that any longer. DJT is right to question the competence of those protecting him because yesterday they failed in almost every way. Nature abhors a vacuum and there are always other options.
Most importantly, as Americans let’s come together and run a proper valid election so we can get back to what matters a merit based society that judges on character and skill. Nothing else.
The pig is a coward and should be fired.
That's to reassure us it didn't de-materialize or was made up of reflective camouflage that rendered it invisible to the naked eye. The media can't be too careful about these things.
Where have y’all been? Are you related to Rip Van Winkle?
Police, even in small towns, haven’t generally carried revolvers for at least 25 years.
He was not shot by Secret Service countersnipers they were local police!!
Where are you hearing that?
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