Trump Assassination Attempt: Butler County Responsible for Securing Building
“The officers in charge of watching the roof left their post to search for Crooks.”
Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris told the House DHS Committee that the Butler County Emergency Service Unit had the responsibility to secure the building a man used to shoot former President Donald Trump.
PA State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris testifies that the Butler County Emergency Services Unit was responsible for the security of the AGR building, where the shooter fired from at the July 13 Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/MSQeQGDbF7
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 23, 2024
Paris also explained the break down in communication:
The emergency unit is comprised of local officers from across multiple Pennsylvania counties, Paris said.
The officers first identified [Thomas Matthew] Crooks as suspicious after seeing him roam around the campaign rally without entering the event, he went on.
They saw him from the second-story window overseeing the roof from where Crooks shot, Paris testified.
Then, when Crooks produced a range finder, their concerns were heightened further and they left their post at the window to go find the suspect – leaving the roof unguarded.
‘I am aware that two were in the building,’ Paris responded to questions about whether law enforcement officers were near the location from where Crooks opened fire.
‘I was told they were in a window,’ he continued.
Paris said Crooks never made or attempted to cross into the secure perimeter, which led the officers to mark him as suspicious.
The officers watching the roof left their post to search for Crooks.
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😮 to “ “In fact, the whistleblower alleges that at least one individual was specifically assigned to the roof for the duration of the rally, but this person abandoned his or her post due to the hot weather.”
… guess this means the remainder of the security team were trying to figure out if the guy on the roof was the person assigned, and why did they have a gun pointed at the rally stage ? ”
This is the reason for uniforms.
Yeah, sure. Crooks didn’t run a drone around the grounds, bring a gun, buy a ladder, and then arrive at the rally just to happen to find that someone had coincidentally left unguarded the vantage point he’d been counting on using.
High temperature on the 13th in Butler was 93 degrees. Yes, that’s hot but it’s the middle of the summer and not unusual. Do you think that roofers or asphalt workers took the day off? I don’t. Crooks didn’t think so either.
If you can’t stand the heat, get a job in a cold storage warehouse.
Admittedly most roofers aren’t laying down on the roof.
However, they also make these really nifty, easy-to-find, inexpensive, easy-to-use things called “sniper mats” that you unfold and lay down on. They keep you off the wet grass and the icky dirt and stuff. And they would provide insulation against a hot roof, too.
Still, the primary fault is the Biden Administration. The event should have had a full complement of secret service staff.
“To serve and protect”
= “To serve ourselves donuts and protect our pensions”
I disbelieve this State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris. Secret Service personnel are singularly responsible for perimeter security. Period. Sloughing it off on “local and state” personnel is a sham. He’s a damn co-conspirator and liar.
Evidence was willfully and purposefully destroyed. The crime scene was literally hosed down by the FBI. Communications between individuals and agencies gone missing (Signal/Telegram apps). Crime scene photographs? Who cares if those photos are graphic in nature. We’re so far beyond the need to suppress information due to an “ongoing” investigation.
Should we wait 70 years for the FBI to never conclude its investigation lol?
Hosing down: https://rb.gy/hin8d9
This is the view from the second story window as videotaped by Rep. Eli Crane.
https://x.com/theblaze/status/1815465889023877352
Video of Rep. Eli Crane standing on the sloping roof documenting how close the windows are to where Crooks was stationed. It’s startling in the extreme and proves that Secret Service personnel were complicit in the planning and execution of the assassination attempt.
https://x.com/RepEliCrane/status/1815432341373780041
Looks like Butler County officials will be made the fall guys
Paris was appointed by Shapiro.
https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/psp/about-psp/leadership.html
No – I don’t believe him.
DID YOU KNOW — The tradition in PA is to play rock paper scissors to see who has to be the fall guy.
This is an interesting confession. It might even hold water.
Because there are still a dozen other people who should have or could have stopped this attempt on Trump’s life.
Three days ago, a panjandrum from Butler bade it crystal clear in writing that his crew was responsible for zero security coverage whatsoever. And now that statement is “nonoperational?”
I saw that as well, but can’t locate it.
A Statement from the BPSD (Updated: July 20, 2024)
Bethel Park School District can confirm that the alleged shooter in the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump is a graduate of Bethel Park High School.
https://www.bpsd.org/apps/news/article/1942738
It was right here on LI:
Butler Commissioner: Local Police ‘Not Responsible for Securing’ Building the Shooter Used ‘or Any Other Location’
Just like my car keys. Hiding in plain sight.
LOCAL NEWS
Butler Township police told Secret Service it could not secure building Trump rally shooter used
By Jennifer Borrasso
July 17, 2024 / 11:42 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The head of the United States Secret Service is facing tough questions in the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle first said it was up to local law enforcement to secure the building that the shooter got access to, but now she’s sharing a different message.
Butler County District Attorney Rich Goldinger said the Secret Service was told local police couldn’t be responsible for securing the AGR building during the Trump rally.
“I don’t know whose responsibility that building was,” Goldinger said. “But someone should have been there.”
I had been really wondering about the heat leading to LEO coming off the roof or LEO out of position due to looking for this guy. That still doesn’t explain:
1. Why this contingency wasn’t addressed in planning.
2. Why wasn’t the absence reported and if reported why no eyes on a known potential vulnerability from another position.
3. Why with all this going on Trump was allowed to go to the podium.
4. Why counter snipers didn’t immediately or damn close to it take out the guy on the roof.
5. Why more actual Secret Service personnel weren’t on hand.
6. Why wasn’t his normal detail topped off with fill in agents on a rotational basis to account for 24/7 duty allowing a core group of his normal agents to always be present.
Blaming this cascade of failure on local LEO is not gonna cut it.
3. Why with all this going on Trump was allowed to go to the podium.
This one is the really obvious t*** in the punch bowl. If you have issues with security, you don’t just press on. You inform the principal. Then you keep him secure until the random security issue is dealt with/resolved.
I’m sure that the roof where the countersnipers were standing — the ones who took out Crooks after it was too late — was a more comfortable temperature entirely.
Oh for sure..the angle of the sun and roof + reasons./S
One of it not the most vulnerable location has three people assigned to it, one is not on the roof ( for whatever reason), that leaves two in the building looking out a window. Both of them leave together leaving the location with zero coverage except for people on the roofs behind Trump who have an obstructed view due to the design of the roof. Why would both officers leave this position vacated? If it was too hot then you rotate people to keep the position covered.
I want to see the layout of people. All the way out to 1,000 feet. Who and how many were exactly where? And to which agency did they belong? For each minute from initial setup to final stand down.
USSS needs to read the Army doctrinal guidance on defensive overwatch of a fixed position. This is the simple stuff you learn when you’re a platoon commander. With respect to the absence of a drone, I simply do not understand how that’s possible. SOCOM has been augmenting bounding overwatch with drones for more than a decade. Are you telling me Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps SOF are more advanced than a USSS protective detail, all of whom are college graduates (minimally)?
Add in that none of the local departments had drone coverage either, I am sure the State Police all the way down the chain have the ability to use drones.
“This is the simple stuff you learn when you’re a platoon commander.”
Sure, but the Biden Administration didn’t select anyone with tactical situational training to head the Secret Service. They picked a nice lady that had been on Jill Biden’s security detail. That was enough.
if you employ drones you’ll have a live, real-time record SOMEWHERE
otherwise , is just what everybody saw/remembers, etc.–much easier to discount / dismiss / deny
this happened in broad daylight in the presence of local leos and secret service, et al
a rare occasion indeed when a lone wolf attacker telegraphs his intentions / location before he acts
why didn’t someone in the secret service contingent ( one of the snipers ) take this guy out before he could open fire on the stage / podium / attendees ? if the reason truly was ” i was ordered to stand down ” then i’d like to know by who because THAT is the person who’s responsible for this tragedy–along with the sniper who, in my humble opinion, should have disobeyed and taken the guy out
in that aftermath, you’d have had one dead, armed fool who was definitely not where he should have been and no one else injured
Didn’t the SS know that someone was supposed to be on the roof of the AGR building? Why didn’t they ensure that an officer was on the roof? I bet that they would have been happy if Trump died