“SS says it is not their job to make sure the perimeter is secured.”
The task can be assigned but that does not remove responsibility.
Does either organization have overall responsibility? This should not be a hard question to answer.
Yep. I live in CT and have had Biden or Dr. Jill visit a few times. Local/state PD usually handle things like road closures, traffic and extra eyes on the area outside the USSS perimeter. A family friend was on one of those details on a Clinton or Bush 43 visit.
Even then they had direct contact with some command post or what not, so if they had sometime come up they would radio it and local dispatch AND USSS could hear it talk to them if needed.
In this situation, they may have cleared the roof/area early on, however once someone got on the roof, the snipers were in a much better position to respond than a patrol officer on the ground. Why such a delay occurred in the response is the real question.
I think you must be thinking of taking responsibility, maybe like a Texas Ranger or someone like that. Instead you've got the Uvalde police taking care of things.
I don't even think they did a good job of surrounding Trump and getting him to safety. Their actions looked lackluster to me for the most part. There were a couple older agents moving much faster than the younger ones who seem to be more concerned about getting their hair mussed.
Trump has too much to do when he is elected. He needs at least a company of axe men to give him some help with the Friday night massacres that need to take place. Besides, officers should only give orders. Non-coms execute them. It takes some people a long time to figure that out without training but when they do things go a lot better if you can get some good subordinates.
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