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Trump assassination attempt: Pennsylvania police release bodycam from deadly Butler rally
https://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 8/8/2024 | Michael Dorgan , Audrey Conklin Fox News

Posted on 08/08/2024 11:13:17 AM PDT by bitt

Police in Pennsylvania released bodycam Thursday showing the chaotic moments after Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump

BUTLER, Penn. – FIRST ON FOX – Police bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital on Thursday through a records request shows two officers attempting to intercept Thomas Matthew Crooks on a roof seconds before he allegedly tried to assassinate former President Trump at a campaign rally last month.

The footage is taken from two officers from the Butler Township Police Department who made a desperate attempt to stop Crooks moments before he fired his DPMS AR-15 rifle striking former President Trump in the ear, killing Corey Comparatore and injuring two others.

"F------ this close, bro. Dude he turned around on me," the officer who was hoisted can be heard saying in another bodycam video released Thursday.

One officer can be seen hosting another officer onto the roof where Crooks was stationed, which is about 12 feet above the ground.

Crooks pointed his weapon at the officer who scaled the building, before he ultimately ducks his head and loses his grip on the roof’s edge and falls about eight feet to the ground, spraining his ankle, Butler Township Manager Thomas Knights previously told Fox News Digital.

The video does not capture Crooks.

"I'm f------ p---ed. We couldn't find him," another officer can be heard saying in the other bodycam footage.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: crooks; trump
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1 posted on 08/08/2024 11:13:17 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 08/08/2024 11:13:34 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

“deadly Butler rally”

Probably be best if PDJT doesn’t hold any more rallies. Those things are deadly.

/S


3 posted on 08/08/2024 11:14:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

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FReepmail me to be added to the list.

4 posted on 08/08/2024 11:14:39 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Kalamity Kamala would like that very much.


5 posted on 08/08/2024 11:15:52 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: bitt
before he allegedly tried to assassinate former President Trump

Seriously?
6 posted on 08/08/2024 11:16:00 AM PDT by JoSixChip (P.S. There’s a fed in that thread you’re in right now.)
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“you’ll be reimbursed for the ladder after the training exercise”


7 posted on 08/08/2024 11:22:19 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: JoSixChip

He was actually angry with firemen and went to the rally to kill one, don’t you know? Trump’s ear couldn’t stop who he was REALLY aiming at. Or so the media would have us beleive.


8 posted on 08/08/2024 11:22:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: bitt

I’m not getting audio until 1:38 in.

Are they covering up the synchronization of the bodycam and real time?

IOW, the start of the AR-15 shots and possibly suppressed long-gun shots?


9 posted on 08/08/2024 11:33:23 AM PDT by rx
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Meanwhile, the SS has no radio comms with the Butler police. Unbelievable! How was this explained?


10 posted on 08/08/2024 11:40:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: bitt

I don’t believe that it would take a year to train new SS agents, to the extent that they could get some highly trained snipers from the military who are keen on spattering some bad guys.


11 posted on 08/08/2024 11:42:21 AM PDT by odawg
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Rooftops...yet no cops thought to bring a ladder.

Cops yelling - shooter on the roof hearing every word.

Would be nice to have the time synched with this video, evidently the 2nd time he was boosted to the roof Crooks had just been shot.

I thought the guy who fell after Crooks aimed the rifle at him was injured when he fell. This guy was in good enough shape to climb up onto the roof a 2nd time.


12 posted on 08/08/2024 11:46:38 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: The_Media_never_lie

How was this explained?

Poorly. lol . Without waterboarding the DeepState characters such as Cheatle,Rowe, Mayorkas and Garland, their BS will be recorded as fact.

No comms, numerous protocols broken, without any effort for an alternative or work around, it’s so obvious that they(DeepState) planned, facilitated, implemented and conspired to kill President Trump.

They will just expel hot air, nothing will happen to them and they’ll try again.


13 posted on 08/08/2024 11:48:57 AM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit authority)
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To: bitt

Wait we were told they did not have body cam on that day.


14 posted on 08/08/2024 11:52:23 AM PDT by mware
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To: OldHarbor

“No comms, numerous protocols broken, without any effort for an alternative or work around, it’s so obvious that they(DeepState) planned, facilitated, implemented and conspired to kill President Trump.


After looking at all the information that has been released thus far, that’s the only explanation that makes sense.

One movement of Trump’s head (an Angel on his shoulder) and all their plans were for naught.


15 posted on 08/08/2024 11:52:35 AM PDT by CFW
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To: bitt

From what I see in this video, the cop was momentarily boosted high enough to see Crooks and then jumped down when Crooks pointed the rifle ar him.

Then he ran quite a long ways to his car to retrieve a rifle - and then stayed back until everything was over.

Lots of noise, no excess of courage.


16 posted on 08/08/2024 12:01:16 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: bitt
So much for the sprained ankle story about the cop who fell from the roof.

The video starts out muted for a reason. We can only speculate as to the reason.

Seeing how the officer was fumbling around with getting his AR ready at his vehicle, he appears to be in a panicked state which probably explains why he didn't immediately discharge his sidearm as means of sounding the alert.

17 posted on 08/08/2024 12:04:37 PM PDT by fso301
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Planned by the same people who dealt with the screwball with the pocketknife back in Obama’s time who got through like 6 checkpoints including the door to the White House where he bowled over a female Secret Service agent... Guy was a PTSD Iraq War veteran whose neighbors said he was a sniper in the Warbut who apparently had been taking in too much global warming nonsense.


18 posted on 08/08/2024 12:14:37 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: CFW

There is a photograph of the US Flag 3 hours before Trump began to speak. It had twisted into a shape of an angel with two wings. See 22min into video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdI64OOYsE
How often does that happen?


19 posted on 08/08/2024 12:15:10 PM PDT by Swirl
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To: Swirl

“There is a photograph of the US Flag 3 hours before Trump began to speak. It had twisted into a shape of an angel with two wings. See 22min into video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdI64OOYsE
How often does that happen?”


I saw that photo a few days after the shooting. It made quite the statement.

I believe there are too many coincidences in connection with July 13th for there not to have been some government agency actors involved.

It worries me that the female SS agent (the one who has never holstered a pistol) appears to now be on Vance’s security detail.


20 posted on 08/08/2024 12:18:54 PM PDT by CFW
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