Posted on 07/16/2024 7:38:03 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A team of police snipers team saw Thomas Crooks scouting their command post three times in the minutes before he climbed on top of it and shot Donald Trump from just inches above their heads, it has emerged.
Three police marksmen from Beaver County were using the single-story AGR International building as their watch-post when the would-be assassin chose it as his place to shoot from, CBS reported.
And he may have been in place on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he unleashed his volley of shots that killed one man and nearly took the life of the 45th president on Saturday evening.
A law enforcement official told the channel said that no action was taken after one of the snipers first spotted Crooks looking up at the roof of the building in Butler, Pennsylvania, just 130 yards from where the president would speak.
The 20-year-old disappeared around a corner before he was seen a second time, sitting down and looking at his phone, prompting one of the snipers to take his picture.
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There is no good excuse why the roof wasn't secured. Or that crowd noticed Crooks a half an hour before the shooting and the Secret Service and its counter sniper team did nothing until he started shooting.
He was ALLOWED to take shots at Trump.
Uhhh, where’s the shoulder length dark hair?
Where’s the print on the t-shirt?
Where’s the rifle?
And where is the baseball cap in the death photo?
Thanks, but this isn't a recent photo. We haven't seen any recent photos of him. Isn't that strange? Even his high-school mates say the dead guy doesn't look like him. Maybe that's because it's not! I think the real Mathew Crooks is in the witness protection program under a new identity, and he and his parents are enjoying the fruits of a big government payoff.
Maybe it's because the dead guy isn't the real Mathew Crooks.
Wait for all the photos to load. There is a rather blurry shot of Crooks from above and behind, candid not posed. Grass and curbing or low wall in background.
He’s wearing grey Demolitia shirt in photo.
In my post 51 I linked the video of crooks crawling on the roof. In that video you can see the LE from the photo earlier in this thread at the 4 second mark, and the guy in white shorts, gray shirt, white hat who was talking to the LE, sitting on the ground at the 7 second mark (I was mistaken before when I said it was at the end).
They were in on it.
Thanks. That looks more like him. But, IMHO he doesn't look enough like the shooter to me.
Failure after failure after failure.
Yet no one gets fired.
But no further action was taken before Crooks reappeared a third time, this time wearing a backpack and disappearing from sight as he walked to the back of the building.
SMDH
Say Cheese!!
There will be more attempts, including after the election if Trump gets that far.
There is no way Trump should of been on that stage at the time of the shooting.
The Red lights and sirens flashing in the command center should have given them a hint.
Eluded
I’m wondering who delivered/set up the ladder, for him.
Did he make several trips (gear, ladder, etc)? Unseen?
Reminds me of the old Living Colors (?) airport skit ... where they shakedown granny, while the obvious terrorists walk on by.
Like with the school shootings the shooter is allowed to do his or its deed before they take him or it out. Its all deliberate
The Keystone Cops, and now you know the rest of the story...
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