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Sheriff defends officer who failed to stop Trump shooter moments before assassination attempt: ‘I would have done the same thing’
The New York Post ^ | 07/15/2024 | Ronny Reyes

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cowardice; fecklessness; keyboardwarriors; pusillanimous; spinelessness
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1) A number of folks here doubted the original story on the encounter that I posted yesterday. To them, do you still doubt that the officer retreated?

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.”

1 posted on 07/15/2024 12:42:14 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

That’s not much of a defense.


2 posted on 07/15/2024 12:42:47 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: thegagline

He would have run like a coward too. They should string him up for like that texican cop that let all the kids die


3 posted on 07/15/2024 12:43:13 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: thegagline

Why didn’t the officer go up there with gun already drawn? I would have.


4 posted on 07/15/2024 12:44:22 PM PDT by clashfan (Eat vegetables. Don't elect them.)
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To: thegagline

Agree
So I guess the local cop couldn’t have alerted the rest?


5 posted on 07/15/2024 12:45:06 PM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: thegagline

Wait. What? You mean to tell that if some nut pointed a rifle at you you wouldn’t retreat? What crap.


6 posted on 07/15/2024 12:45:16 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: thegagline

A vast majority of LEOs are not on our side when the SHTF. That should have been obviously quite some time ago.


7 posted on 07/15/2024 12:45:17 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: thegagline

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?


8 posted on 07/15/2024 12:45:22 PM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: thegagline

The classic stand down coward tactics.


9 posted on 07/15/2024 12:45:58 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: thegagline

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.


10 posted on 07/15/2024 12:46:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: thegagline

So Butler PA police are cowards who will run away and fail to defend the public. I hope the citizens there are paying attention.


11 posted on 07/15/2024 12:46:17 PM PDT by Skwor
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I think it's a fair statement that if you poke your head up in a situation like that and someone starts bringing a rifle around to bear on you, you are going to duck if you have any sense at all. So I don't fault his conduct (and I find much to fault all over the place elsewhere in this whole situation).

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.

12 posted on 07/15/2024 12:47:16 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: clashfan

Even if he fired his gun in the air would have been better than doing nothing.


13 posted on 07/15/2024 12:47:29 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: thegagline

I bet those coward sheriffs still expect the military to take a bullet for them though, disgusting!


14 posted on 07/15/2024 12:47:51 PM PDT by Skwor
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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.


15 posted on 07/15/2024 12:48:08 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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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?


16 posted on 07/15/2024 12:48:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: clashfan

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.


17 posted on 07/15/2024 12:48:27 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: thegagline

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.


18 posted on 07/15/2024 12:49:06 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Seruzawa

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.


19 posted on 07/15/2024 12:49:27 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: HIDEK6

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.


20 posted on 07/15/2024 12:49:31 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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