Posted on 07/17/2024 8:31:25 AM PDT by frogjerk
The local cop who interrupted Thomas Crooks’ assassination attempt on Donald Trump — but failed to stop the deranged gunman from squeezing the trigger — saved the ex-president’s life, a Pennsylvania sheriff insisted Tuesday.
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe doubled down on his defense of the Butler Township police officer who confronted Crooks at the Saturday rally and assailed online critics as “a–holes” in an interview with The Post.
Slupe argued that the officer — whose department was enlisted by the Secret Service to help during the rally — merely coming face to face with the shooter delayed what could have been a worse outcome for Trump.
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I guess it’s possible, but I think he’s the shooter as there is a huge difference between a one inch dot at 130 yards and an average man’s head. Even a moron like him could likely get close, cold bore and all.
A complete clown 🤡🤡🤡 show of ineptness
The Secret Service should have had snipers ready to shoot to kill.
For the local cops, the instant he turned the rifle at the cop, he should have been killed. That identified him as hostile clearly enough.
There should have been spotters watching.
“The local cops were literally inside the building from which the shooter fired.” The SS broad now claims that was not true. SS were in next building, or so she says. I
Ya know maybe they could have looked from the ground like all the bystanders did or radioed the sniper team. Assine move to shimmy up there.
So they did not site evaluation before the event, just sauntered in that day?
That may be true and if so deserves respect for the right instincts and commitment on the part of those officers. None the less all around security poorly managed.
“None the less all around security poorly managed.”
And those “managers” would be the SS.
The SS director and some in the chain of command is my guess. The detail says their hands were tied.
It sounds like the cop hurried the shooter along so he rushed his shot, if nothing else.
That works.
I also wouldn’t want to be poking my head over a ladder when a guy was pointing a rifle at me. He’d have been a sitting duck.
In hindsight, the cop could have started shooting blindly with his pistol over the ladder in the direction of the sniper after ducking down. He might not hit him, and might hit someone else, but it would have rushed Trump off stage and certainly disturbed the shooter more/quicker (unless the SS is even more compromised than we already know).
If that ladder was in the open and missed in a site evaluation, that's one thing. If it was concealed in the trees earlier by the perp, that's another. If someone else concealed it for him, Katy bar the door.
If the police put it there after the fact, they better speak up now.
Think about your last comment and apply to this situation:
A person in the crowd says that another person has a gun.
Do we start blasting away? Or do you send a law enforcement officer to investigate and confirm? Was it really a gun? Perhaps that person was an undercover or LEO?
Assess the situation and if possible, disarm/arrest, at the very least, detain and question is by far the more appropriate reaction than just blasting away. People do stupid things trying to get the perfect photograph and large camera lenses can look like rifle scopes to the untrained eye.
Also, in securing an area, multiple different frequencies / channels and even encryption with keys are used on the channel. Having been apart of a security event that required high level of coordination, I can tell you that is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that a local cop would be able to directly communicate with the sniper team. Very likely that they could only communicate with the command center. I further suspect that it was the command center that gave the order to go over and check out if the reports of a gunman were true.
I can also tell you from personal experience, that many times reports from ordinary citizens are unreliable at best.
We don’t disagree on the general situation.
I think that since they could have seen from the ground as the bystanders did and there were snipers set up who had a great view they should have gotten information from the ground, not from the bystanders but looking themselves from that angle & radioed or phoned the snipers.
They could do nothing without a gun and even with a gun blindly going up on the roof was foolish since they could have so easily been blown away.
The perp bought a ladder but there was a building ladder in place at 90 degrees to where the police shimmied up. That photo has been posted on FR. There is supposition that the perp used hi ladder near the loading dock and climbed on a shed and then to the roof. That theory is apparently moonshine because the shed roof would not support his weight.
Hang on.
” Not only as a cop, but as an American also. He should have stopped the threat...PERIOD.”
What would you have done while hanging on the roof with both hands and a dude pointing a rifle at you?
As an American I would have ____ .
Shouted bloody murder, got on the coms and shouted the location of the threat, told the snipers inside the building to get out and do their job. Barney Fife would have done something.
” told the snipers inside the building to get out and do their job.”
A sniper inside noted his activity three times.
Apology to officer in question at link.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4252169/posts?page=73#73
The officer who confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof radioed a “blanket tactical channel” that there was “an individual on the roof with a weapon” before the assassination attempt on President Trump.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4252169/posts
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