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Report: Local Law Enforcement Officer Encountered Shooter Before Shots Fired at Trump Rally
Breitbart ^ | July 14, 2023 | Elizabeth Weibel

Posted on 07/14/2024 6:02:11 PM PDT by Morgana

A local law enforcement officer reportedly encountered the shooter moments before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

Two law enforcement officials told the Associated Press (AP) that a local police officer had encountered the shooter, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified as being Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

The AP noted that the law enforcement officials had agreed to speak to the outlet “on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.”

A local law enforcement officer reportedly climbed up to the roof of a nearby building where Crooks had positioned himself with a direct line to the former president.

Upon encountering Crooks, the officer reportedly went back down the ladder, after which he “quickly took a shot toward Trump,” the anonymous officials said, according to the AP.

While the Washington Post reported that Butler County Sheriff Michael T. Slupe said “seconds before” the shooter fired shots toward Trump that Crooks had “faced a municipal police officer who wasn’t able to neutralize him,” Slupe told Jennifer Borrasso, a reporter with KDKA-TV that he “never said that.”

“How would I know it was seconds?” Slupe said. “First of all. And, I never said that to begin with. The face-to-face thing, how could I know he was face-to-face? All I know is the officer had both hands up on the roof to get up onto the roof. Never made it, because the shooter had turned towards the officer and rightfully, and smartfully, the officer let go.”

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1 posted on 07/14/2024 6:02:11 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

That Bongino fella was just on Fox. I don’t like him. ONLY 50 Years old. NYPD at age 21-25 then became secret service(11 years)until 2011-age 37. Quit when protecting Biden. He’s got something going. He’s out for himself. He mighta been a good enough NY cop to be hired for the Secret Service under Clinton but I’m wondering.

At a young (50 years)political age I’m a skeptic. You should be too.

Just where is he going with all this?


2 posted on 07/14/2024 6:12:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I like Dan Bongino. He is a truth teller.


3 posted on 07/14/2024 6:15:39 PM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: Morgana

Rightly and smartly?
Imagine what might have happened to the shooter if he had fired at that officer
before he fired at President Trump, given that Trump’s snipers were already on alert, but apparently instructed not to fire first?


4 posted on 07/14/2024 6:16:03 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: Morgana

Name the police officer that approached the shooter on the roof.


5 posted on 07/14/2024 6:16:11 PM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: yldstrk

Reminds me of the school resource officer who hid out during the Florida shooting a few years ago.


6 posted on 07/14/2024 6:20:03 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Morgana

Saw Dan’s name on the side of a barn in rural Maryland when he ran for Senate in 2012. It looked like the 1930’s.


7 posted on 07/14/2024 6:24:04 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Your wrong about Bongino.

He and Trump have a great relationship. Bongino is fully aware of what has happened inside the Secret Service.

He is a no BS guy.

Have you watched his program on Rumble and various other sites.


8 posted on 07/14/2024 6:28:39 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: yldstrk

Bump


9 posted on 07/14/2024 6:28:58 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

don’t worry about that guy, probably most everyone here agree with you


10 posted on 07/14/2024 8:22:02 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Morgana
the officer had both hands up on the roof to get up onto the roof. Never made it, because the shooter had turned towards the officer

At the point the officer learned there was someone on the roof, was that info radio'd in prior to the officer climbing up? There were at least a few seconds where the shooter heard or noticed the officer and turned his weapon away from the stage and towards the officer climbing up. If the info was radio'd in, why wasn't Trump either body-blocked or overboarded off the stage by the detail standing right behind him in those seconds?

11 posted on 07/14/2024 8:22:55 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Mount Athos

Thanks.

It did not bother me, but I knew he was not aware of who Bongino is and what he has done.


12 posted on 07/15/2024 2:37:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: blueplum

There is too little information here to be sure. We don’t know when this encounter happened. It could have happened after the initial 8 shots were fired. There were about 10 seconds before the CS kill shot is heard. Is this why there were only 8 shots?

I notice on one photo it looks like the shooter has a large bloody spot on the side of his head. Did he turn toward the cop and take a head shot to the side of his head?

EC


13 posted on 07/15/2024 7:43:28 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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