It wasn’t incompetence, it was complicity.
There were officers on the ground who should have been called into dealing with the suspicious person. Why would countersnipers leave a lookout post and their assigned watch duties to go after someone on the ground? The most innocent thing it could be was that communication between agencies was close to non-existant and they couldn’t get another officer to check him out.
The biggest danger was if he attained the roof, and he had been seen checking out the roof.
Did they think he was an autistic high school photographer? Bad optics shooting a geeky kid.
How and when did he get the rifle on the roof? Or did he just find it therre?
First the excuse was the roof was too hot so the team tasked with protecting this dream sniper perch went inside to the second floor. Despite three men at post with several windows facing directly out on the high risk dream perch, they alls left their post just as Crooks became visible and took his shooting position. I’m not buying this ridiculous made up BS story for a minute. Who were these subverters and traitors? So the story of the 2nd floor window ends there, nothing more to see or say. Why was the window glass cranked out on this window? What was the guy on top of the water tower doing? This is beyond incredulous.
GMTA. I did not see your comment before I posted mine.
100% CORRECT.. AMEN!