Pennsylvania Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump.
He didn’t have a detailed timeline yet, but he gave far more information than Secret Service Director Cheatle, who gave none.
Commissioner Paris identified Thomas Crooks as suspicious about 25 minutes before the first shots were fired on July 13. He came to their attention because he was milling about and not going to the venue.
Multiple suspicious individuals were at the venue, but that is standard for this type of event. There were three suspicious people on July 13.
When Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle sat with Congress yesterday, she said would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was identified as a suspect, not a threat. It will be interesting to see how that claim turns out.
An additional three individuals were identified as suspicious before the assassination attempt against President Trump took place.
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Paris said that two officers with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, a tactical force with sniper capabilities, left their posts in the building to look for a suspicious individual [Thomas Crooks] they spotted. They alerted other law enforcement.
Two officers confronted Crooks, and as one dangled from the roof, Crooks aimed his rifle at him, and the officer fell.
It was no more than three minutes before the first shots.
Police had a text thread going and went on high alert when Crooks used the rangefinder. They relayed Secret Service.
Local, state, and federal law enforcement were in a unified command post at the rally.
State Police “verbally turned right around and gave it to the Secret Service,” Paris said.
Crooks fired eight rounds before he was taken out. Eight shell casings were found. Why couldn’t Kim Cheatle have told us that yesterday? If she didn’t know, she should have known nine days after the fact.
Local counter-snipers were removed from their posts minutes before the shooting. It’s not clear why.
They took this photo:
These ESU [Emergency Service Unit trained in SWAT] police probably would have had a clean shot of Crooks as he climbed to the roof. They were removed from their positions to search for Crooks after he was identified as suspicious around 5:14, Paris said. The shooting was at 6:11. It’s still not clear when the snipers left their post.
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Who has done the sweep for brass around the water tower or any other liekly location for a second shooter? Hopefully NOT anyone connected with federal or PA state LEA. Of course, any trained sniper will have gathered his own brass. Any professional mechanic will have wiped his rounds with acetone and loaded the magazine wearing latex gloves (no prints) even if LEA find the brass.
Of course they will say there was 8 casings found near Crooks, any number lower than that would be admitting there was a second shooter.
But the audio analysis clearly indicates the first 3 shots have a muffled sound, have no echo and the trigger is pulled at a slower pace as a sniper would to make sure he is on target.
the 5 subsequent shots have very different sound, very clear, not muffled, have an echo thus are shot from a different location, and the trigger is pulled very fast like an amateur who does not care about precision, just cares about shooting someone anyone.
I don t believe 8 casings were found near Crooks and if that is true and would put to rest the ” conspiracy theories” why was Cheatle categorically refusing to tell us ?
I don t believe them
they have been told to say that, it is part of the cover up.