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.”
It sounds like the officer was attempting to get on the roof and he had both hands occupied. He was essentially helpless. Maybe dropping down was the right call.
This doesn’t surprise me. A local police officer in rural Pennsylvania is basically a Dept. of Public Works employee with a badge.
I still want to know why the police didn’t have someone up on the roof from the beginning? The shooter should never have had the opportunity to get up there.
Sounds as though both are chicken-hearted.
Is anyone surprised?
We do know you would have done the same thing. Maybe you’d even have offered to be his spotter. You never-Trumpers should not be here, especially now.
This stinks of BS.
Cops are int the news almost daily gunning down someone that had a firearm in hand.
This cop runs away?
Choice
Hero and stop the shooter
Or
Coward and retreat to mayhem and death
“…claiming it was the right call to retreat after the gunman pointed the weapon at him.“
BALONEY!!!!
If it were a DOG, the cop would’ve shot it down, not cower in fear.
If it were ME, I’d have had my head blown right off.
But no.. this guy was there to kill Trump. “..Yeah, better back off and give him his space..”
Not sure if that is fair… you don’t just charge to get shot.
The roof needed to be secure… once he had eyes on the weapon the order to shoot should have come from Secret Service… if he doesn’t retreat he just gets shot.
don’t believe this story...the ladder was right there
He saw the shooter, saw the rifle (it was pointed at him) he how about a little gangster action duck and put his pistol over the edge and blast the little creep?
I guess squeezing off a couple alert rounds in the air was too much to ask.
Then both of them should be fired. This reminds me of the Uvalde police who didn’t rush in to subdue shooter for about one hour after they arrived. Reminds me of the old saying “fools rush in where angels fear to tread” but the more accurate saying today is “Heroes rush in where cowards fear to tread”.
Interesting how the story has changed since yesterday. Yesterday had the officer climbing a ladder to reach the roof, now he was boosted up by another officer, holding on to the roof with both hands, and not having a third hand, could not use his weapon. So, when confronted by the murderer, he let go and dropped to the ground. Who boosted up the shooter if there was no ladder?
OK, I understand that first reports can lack details, but now, what do you do in that circumstance? Nothing? Get on a radio to someone, anyone, “Man on roof” Two armed officers are within feet of a gunman who has threatened one of them, and by all accounts (which may be incomplete or wrong) did nothing.
None of this absolves the Secret Service. They have two jobs, protect our currency and protect those who they are assigned to protect. They utterly failed the second.
Law enforcement has no obligation to protect. That concept flew the coop long ago. They are just there for the clean up.
If some assassin pointed a rifle at me I would kill him. Without thought. Without hesitation.
Only God and civilians protected Trump that day.
I call BS to this entire story since no call of shooter was made on the radio. No warning, alerts, or messages of any kind.
There was also a ladder right there for the officer to use as the shooter no doubt used.