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Building where gunman Thomas Crooks scrambled onto the roof and opened fire was the staging area for the local police tactical
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Posted on 07/15/2024 11:11:45 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Thomas Crooks scrambled onto the roof and opened fire was the staging area for the local police tactical team that was watching over the crowd, two law enforcement officials told ABC News.


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To: janetjanet998

(He climbed onto the roof with his gun without using a ladder?)

How was this possible? The sides of the building was metal/tin . It’s not like he’s Spiderman!


21 posted on 07/15/2024 11:23:20 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: HandBasketHell

If that building was the local pd staging area, yes local pd is responsible.


22 posted on 07/15/2024 11:24:20 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: PLMerite

Come on. They all had comms on them.


23 posted on 07/15/2024 11:24:48 AM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: janetjanet998

There are pictures of the building showing a ladder on the side of the building, accessing the roof-—not sure IF that was the case when the shooting occurred.
Any way you look at it—WTH were the cops thinking? Leaving this site unsecured? Good Lord-—NO WAY was this an overlooked security lapse==NO ONE is that stupid and incompetent—This was a set up——PLUS witnesses were pointing out the shooter as he climbed into position and the Police Did NOTHING-—
Also reports that the shooter was detained earlier in the day because he looked “suspicious” and they let him go unwatched and not monitored—WTF??


24 posted on 07/15/2024 11:26:14 AM PDT by scott says (Servant of the Living God--YHVH)
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To: janetjanet998

He climbed onto the roof with his gun without using a ladder?
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Do a Google map street view....the fixed ladder was behind the two tall shrubs/trees but even if it wasn’t there that building looks very easy to get to the roof....


25 posted on 07/15/2024 11:26:43 AM PDT by hecticskeptic ( A)
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To: HandBasketHell

I can tell you from personal experience that many cops in rural Pennsylvania are Keystone Kop Klowns who would never be hired by a serious police department.


26 posted on 07/15/2024 11:26:59 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: hardspunned
Are they saying the building this guy was on was full of cops?

Maybe the Secret Service sent the local cops out for a donut break.


27 posted on 07/15/2024 11:27:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: madison10

SS says the building was out of their zone, and locals were responsible. Locals are saying SS had ‘overall responsibility,’ and it was their responsibility; heard on radio this morning


28 posted on 07/15/2024 11:27:27 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: PLMerite

That might have added to the confusion over who the guy on the roof with a rifle really was

Perhaps .. I’m assuming the cops cleared out before Trump started to speak though ???


29 posted on 07/15/2024 11:28:17 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: HandBasketHell
Sounds like the SS is going to blame the local cops.

Already have. Finger pointing and a quick sweeping under the rug.

30 posted on 07/15/2024 11:28:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: janetjanet998

No words, honest to God no words


31 posted on 07/15/2024 11:31:21 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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1. Where did the ladder he used come from?

2. How’d he walk into the area with a rifle?

3. Why - when everyone was yelling and pointing - wasn’t he taken out before he got multiple shots off?

Multiple angle real time video where you can see how much time they had to stop the shooter:

https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1812731727053488418


32 posted on 07/15/2024 11:33:17 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: janetjanet998

Seems like it was “An Area Staged for an Assassin”


33 posted on 07/15/2024 11:33:36 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: janetjanet998

This story just solidifies my conclusion that this was an inside job by the democrats.


34 posted on 07/15/2024 11:34:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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There was one guy at the presser yesterday says the perp was outside the perimiter????

Outside the perimeter? That perimeter is is anything within eyesight of The President and a bit beyond.

How in the Ho Lee Phuk is that possible?

I’ve been to Trump rallies and snipers are everywhere, including in the hills surrounding.

Security is actually visible for miles before you even get to a rally venue.

I felt safe, as well, unconcerned for The President’s safety

Moreover, there was a helicopter circling the event

The building 20 feet behind the dead dude is actually one story higher and begs the question “Why wasn’t a team on top of those buildings?” We know the answer.

Moreover, there is a 90 foot water directly to the east and overlooking all the buildings where dead was and he would have been easily seen if a team was on that water tower.

It is only 100yrds to the east. https://www.google.com/maps/place/615+Whitestown+Rd,+Meridian,+PA+16001/@40.8585856,-79.9698802,577m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88337d9ebe29308f:0x1b4bca6251cd761e!8m2!3d40.8585186!4d-79.9699773!16s%2Fg%2F11ckqj_ky9?entry=ttu

No one on building to secure it.

No one overlooking to secure it.

So… a guy just decides to show up at a rally and take a potshot at PDJT… and he looks around for a spot that wasn’t covered by USSS and… well whadaya know! He’s in luck. A handy barn roof with no-one on it. And his rifle happens to be sighted in for the distance to the stage.

Now, let’s just see if he can get up there with a rifle without being spotted. Well whaddaya know! Another lucky break! Wait… he was spotted and pointed out to security, Well whaddaya know! Three times lucky! Security blew it off.

Oops. His luck ran out. He was shot deader’n a doornail. Tsk, tsk. Too bad. Can’t question him now.

Gonna be lots of stuff out there

Fact is “it should have never happened “

That it did is inexplicable and no answer will be acceptable

Snipers have an Area of Operation

In that AO are Squares that they are responsible for scanning hostiles and intelligence

Each Square also has math notes for distance, elevation, declination, etc

This was not a slipup


35 posted on 07/15/2024 11:35:20 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: janetjanet998

And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ignore the ladder in the video and witnesses who saw him climb it.


36 posted on 07/15/2024 11:35:30 AM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: janetjanet998
He climbed onto the roof with his gun without using a ladder?


LOL ... great question.

🕷️ 🕸️


37 posted on 07/15/2024 11:37:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: janetjanet998

It makes me wonder how the perp even knew that the roof was available at all. Are we to believe he was able to scope out the location when it was a police facility?


38 posted on 07/15/2024 11:37:48 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Also note the perp lived thirty five miles away—it is not as though he had local knowledge.


39 posted on 07/15/2024 11:39:04 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: janetjanet998

Thank God he missed. That was a very stressful 10 minutes or so waiting to find out. Still can’t believe it happened. Talk about Divine intervention.


40 posted on 07/15/2024 11:44:07 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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