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Exclusive – Butler Township Commissioner: Officer Who Encountered Would-Be Assassin ‘Did Not Retreat’, Not to Blame
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Posted on 07/17/2024 11:53:41 AM PDT by janetjanet998

The local police officer who encountered the would-be assassin of former President Donald Trump “did not retreat” and tried to grab his gun but fell backwards, injuring himself in the process. The officer is now in “pretty bad” mental shape, Butler Township Commissioner Edward Natali said, explaining that media outlets are wrongly blaming local officers for what happened Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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To: 1Old Pro

Poor man probably has a concussion.

I am not ready to blame him.

The fish rots from the head.


21 posted on 07/17/2024 12:33:44 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero
Poor man probably has a concussion.

So do 10 kids at the Saturday HS football game.

22 posted on 07/17/2024 12:35:52 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Persevero

I would like to see a photo of the guy.

My gut is telling me he is kinda heavy—too many doughnuts—hard for the other cop to lift.


23 posted on 07/17/2024 12:38:42 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: desertsolitaire

Hmmm...
OK... See your point...
However, one of the officers needed to just point there gun at the ground and fire a couple of shots as a warning...


24 posted on 07/17/2024 12:50:05 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal
one of the officers needed to just point there gun at the ground and fire a couple of shots as a warning...

And be taken out by the SS sniper?


25 posted on 07/17/2024 12:53:18 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: null and void
That does not absolve one from responding.

The response is intentionally vague.

26 posted on 07/17/2024 12:55:01 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: circlecity
He had the balls to go up there. I blame those that let him get up there.

It was his duty to go up there.

27 posted on 07/17/2024 12:57:00 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6
It was his duty to go up there.

And he had a duty to risk his life to take out the shooter. Otherwise he should take a job at a nail salon.

28 posted on 07/17/2024 12:58:52 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: HIDEK6

Well, sadly...

Warren v. District of Columbia (1981), the court ruled that the police do not have a specific duty to protect individuals unless a “special relationship” exists.


29 posted on 07/17/2024 12:59:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: JPII Be Not Afraid
Being hoisted up by another officerYou are right.

These guys were doing some tough moves and I would not discredit their actions so easily. If anyone believes this was the will of God then they must know that the shooter had to proceed or we would not have the outcome we have, blessed is this country. Trump will roll over the deep state and the cockroaches in power in a unifying landslide because of this event.

It may also be postulated that this encounter forced a rush to target for the shooter and he subsequently didn't wait for Trump to be still. That would imply this one police officer actually saved Trump's life and he can be proud of his actions.

30 posted on 07/17/2024 1:03:18 PM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: janetjanet998
"...and tried to grab his gun but fell backwards,"

If you've got a handgun and someone pointed a rifle at you, close range - would you fire three rounds, or just try to grab his gun with your other hand?

31 posted on 07/17/2024 1:03:46 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: janetjanet998

This is IRRELEVANT.

Counter snipers had eyes on a shooter who had somehow “found” his way to the perfect line of sight for a kill shot and he got off EIGHT shots.

The prosecution rests.


32 posted on 07/17/2024 1:04:11 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: existtoexcel
rump will roll over the deep state and the cockroaches in power in a unifying landslide because of this event.

One would hope. But dont count chickens before the cheat.

33 posted on 07/17/2024 1:09:09 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: HIDEK6

34 posted on 07/17/2024 1:12:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SuperLuminal

He wasn’t trying to grab the rifle, he was trying to grab his own gun and bring it to bear.


35 posted on 07/17/2024 1:20:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: null and void

I doubt anyone would be in great shape if they popped their head up above the roof and their first view was right into the barrel of an assassin’s gun.


36 posted on 07/17/2024 1:22:19 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: janetjanet998

Truthfully ..this all falls on the ss...who’s only job ..in this case .is to protect the President .Who shockingly will not take responsibility for screwing up..unless they didn’t screw up,? And this was what it is starting to look like..from the government that has done everything it possibly could do to destroy Trump.


37 posted on 07/17/2024 1:22:43 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: 1Old Pro

Not easy to hang onto a roof one-handed while trying to grab your gun with the other while an assassin is getting ready to blow your head off for interrupting his plans.

There should have been a SS detail on that roof in the first place. There should have been a SS drone and a SS drone operator scanning the rooftops and such.

One story claimed the roof was “too hot” for a person to be stationed up there. Then dipstick claimed the roof was too steep for the SS (leaving unsaid that it was just right for the shooter.)

Apparently the local police didn’t have a ladder after all, and the cop was being lifted up by the other to peek over the roof, which is unlikely to provide the steadiest of footing, and if the top cop was ducking away from the gunman’s gun, the cop on the bottom was probably thrown off balance and perhaps couldn’t continue holding the other one up.


38 posted on 07/17/2024 1:36:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
I doubt anyone would be in great shape if they popped their head up above the roof and their first view was right into the barrel of an assassin’s gun.

Yet Trump can have it pointed at him and get shot and still go on. Hmmm

39 posted on 07/17/2024 1:38:13 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: janetjanet998

BS

It’s all finger pointing.

EVERY SINGLE AGENCY IS IMCOMPETANT OR CRIMINAL!

I’ve had enough of this crap.


40 posted on 07/17/2024 1:39:34 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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