NEW: Butler PA officers at Trump rally after the shooting, discussing that they had warned USSS about vulnerabilities far in advance.
“I f**ing told them to post guys over here. I told the Secret Service Tuesday!” pic.twitter.com/A367aXZKRR
— Still Boneless (@still_boneless) August 8, 2024
So, even the local bumpkin cops knew the Secret Service was retarded (or something else)?
Yikes.
In the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured.
“I [bleep] told them they needed to post guys [bleep] over here,” the officer said in police body camera footage released by the Butler Township police department, with expletives bleeped out. “I told them that [bleeped expletive] Tuesday.”
When another officer asked who he told that to, he responded: “The Secret Service.”
Police body camera videos, released in response to a public records request, show frustration among local law enforcement at how Thomas Matthew Crooks – whom police had flagged as suspicious before the shooting – managed to slip away from their view, scale a roof and open fire with an AR-style rifle at the former US president and Republican presidential nominee. CNN had submitted a public records request and published the footage.
It’s just an obvious fact that anyone could look at that map and see where the sniper would be. I think any child over the age of 5 could tell you.
The fact that the cops were like “what the hell are you spooks up to?” is not surprising.
JUST IN: New bodycam footage shows the moment Thomas Crooks pointed his gun at a police officer who confronted him on the roof.The officer could be seen falling from the roof before running to grab his rifle. (Audio is off until 1:38 in the footage) pic.twitter.com/UzIbQnGcdi
— 💎Courage4ever 💎 (@NancyMar2022) August 9, 2024
New footage showing Thomas Crooks strolling on the roof for minutes before shooting at Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/hGZjzlMqbP
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) August 1, 2024