Posted on 07/15/2024 12:42:14 PM PDT by thegagline
The local Pennsylvania sheriff defended the armed officer who encountered former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on the rooftop moments before the shooting — claiming it was the right call to retreat after the gunman pointed the weapon at him.
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe confirmed Monday that a local officer made contact with Crooks after being hoisted up to the roof by another officer — but fled when the sniper pointed his AR-style assault rifle at the officer.
“I would have done the same thing, absolutely,” the sheriff said.
comment. “All I know is the officer had both hands on the roof to get up on the roof, never made it because the shooter had turned towards the officer, and rightfully and smartly, the officer let go,” Slupe told KDKA.
The gunman immediately fired up to eight rounds at Trump, wounding him and killing a hero firefighter in the stands. Two others were also wounded.
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2) Notice that the media still isn’t reporting the cowardly officers’s picture or name? Often the NY Post intentionally makes these omissions when the person is a member of the “protected class.”
That’s not much of a defense.
He would have run like a coward too. They should string him up for like that texican cop that let all the kids die
Why didn’t the officer go up there with gun already drawn? I would have.
Agree
So I guess the local cop couldn’t have alerted the rest?
Wait. What? You mean to tell that if some nut pointed a rifle at you you wouldn’t retreat? What crap.
A vast majority of LEOs are not on our side when the SHTF. That should have been obviously quite some time ago.
There are things now a days called radios. Do you think he could have called it in to get the people on the ground to protect the president?
The classic stand down coward tactics.
For a lot of cops, the only real goal each day is to live to go home at the end. Which is understandable.
Still some of us expect Serving and Protecting to also be priorities. But these don’t always make the list.
So Butler PA police are cowards who will run away and fail to defend the public. I hope the citizens there are paying attention.
My instinctive reaction, though, would have been to immediately unholster my firearm and fire off 2-3 shots into the air ASAP, as a way of sounding a general alert that the guy on the roof really is a threat. Maybe that's not proper police protocol (I am not LEO), but that's my gut response one what I would have done in that situation. At the very least it would have drawn attention and maybe kicked some reactions into effect that would have helped.
Even if he fired his gun in the air would have been better than doing nothing.
I bet those coward sheriffs still expect the military to take a bullet for them though, disgusting!
I tend to agree, retreat for the moment when a gun is pointed at you. What we don’t know is what followed.
You can all sound brave, BUT YOU WEREN’T THERE.
I assume the officer was in uniform (somebody else today said he was in civilian clothes). But, if he was being hoisted up by another officer, both must have been in uniform.
If the shooter clearly turned his rifle on the officer beginning to climb onto the roof, then wouldn’t that be sufficient justification for the police sniper to take him down at that instant?
It sounds like he was actually climbing up to get on top of the roof and still hanging there, legs swinging, when the confrontation occurred. So probably not in a position to reach for his gun or fire on the guy.
Here is the biggest unanswered question: When the officers were notified of the guy with a rifle on top of the unsecured rooftop, why was Trump not immediately shielded? This should have been immediately answered. I don’t recall an answer. The longer this goes on the more they will be working on b.s. to cover up what actually took place.
I would not have retreated: I didn’t retreat when I was shot at and hit in 1967 and I would not retreat now. Easy to see why police work has lost its prestige.
Like an entire police force who refused to save 19 children?
Once the officer distracted the shooter why didn’t didn’t the snipers take him out? The shooter got 8 shots off immediately after the officer behind him retreated.
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