Originally Posted By P229SAS:
Sound starts at 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5vCse3qak

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:


Looks like he pussed out real bad. He’s not hanging off the roof, he’s almost on it it looks like. I don’t even see Crooks after pausing several frames. You gotta think, he could have saved a life even if he was shot, it would have alerted everyone. Instead, turn tail just like those cowards in Uvalde.

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:


Looks like he pussed out real bad. He’s not hanging off the roof, he’s almost on it it looks like. I don’t even see Crooks after pausing several frames. You gotta think, he could have saved a life even if he was shot, it would have alerted everyone. Instead, turn tail just like those cowards in Uvalde.

Originally Posted By PortaJohnPicasso:


He may have assumed the SS were, you know, doing their fucking jobs, and would shoot that guy any second.....  

Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel:

could you tell if he already had his pistol drawn when he got on the roof or did he draw it after jumping down?

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:


No, I couldn’t tell, but it looks like if he had half way decent upper body strength he could have pressed himself up in the roof, rolled then drawn

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:

Looks like he pussed out real bad. He’s not hanging off the roof, he’s almost on it it looks like. I don’t even see Crooks after pausing several frames. You gotta think, he could have saved a life even if he was shot, it would have alerted everyone. Instead, turn tail just like those cowards in Uvalde.

Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel:

I told yall homeboy didnt have a broke foot. Does anyone remember who said that in the interview. It was one of the locals. What a liar.

Originally Posted By marnsdorff:
Soooo....why no audio during the time he was radioing stuff in?  And when the shots were being fired?

Originally Posted By marnsdorff:
Soooo....why no audio during the time he was radioing stuff in?  And when the shots were being fired?

“I f**king told [the Secret Service] they need to post the guys f**king over here. I told them that, the f**king, the Secret Service, I told them that f**king Tuesday. I told them to post f**king guys over here.”

“I wasn’t even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof. How in the hell can you lose a guy walking back here?”

“They were inside!”

Originally Posted By Chokey:

\uD83D\uDEA8BREAKING: More footage from day of attempted Trump assassination\uD83D\uDEA8

“I f**king told [the Secret Service] they need to post the guys f**king over here. I told them that, the f**king, the Secret Service, I told them that f**king Tuesday. I told them to post f**king guys over… pic.twitter.com/FzFMiO3Kli

Breaking911  (@Breaking911) August 8, 2024

Originally Posted By doc540:


NO.
People had been yelling and pointing to a guy WITH A GUN ON THE ROOF.

That's why he was hustling front to back and then in circles.

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:


Why didn’t he try to get back on or find another spot to climb up? He runs off to his car like he’s a teenage girl.

At the end of the day the sheriff or whoever told another bs story, just like Uvalde, of him barely hanging there and falling 8 feet. Their ass needs to be held accountable for that, lying sacks of shot, typical cops.

Originally Posted By D_Man:
Body cams normally are not always on, it would take up too much storage space and have to be overwritten often.  But they are always capturing a rolling "buffer" of video with no audio.  The length of this buffer is usually only a minute or two, and it constantly deletes the beginning of that short buffer as it captures the newer part.  The purpose of this is so when something happens that requires recording and the officer activates the camera, there is that short buffer video portion saved before the activation in case any relevant information is present and captured there leading up to the activation.

The wearer has to push a button on the unit to activate the recording, which normally they do when they start traffic stops, etc.  You see the cop reach up to the camera and start the recording right after he takes the rifle out of the case, the no-audio bit up to that point is the pre-buffered video.  If you watch any of those police traffic stop or pursuit videos with body cams, you'll notice a lot of them have an initial period like that as well with no audio, same thing.

Originally Posted By Chokey:

\uD83D\uDEA8BREAKING: More footage from day of attempted Trump assassination\uD83D\uDEA8

“I f**king told [the Secret Service] they need to post the guys f**king over here. I told them that, the f**king, the Secret Service, I told them that f**king Tuesday. I told them to post f**king guys over… pic.twitter.com/FzFMiO3Kli

Breaking911  (@Breaking911) August 8, 2024

Originally Posted By LittleBigHorn:


That's such a shit take.  Have you ever had a rifle pointed at your head in such an absolutely lopsided situation?  There are a lot of sayings for this.

Originally Posted By HootieWho:


Should have backed a cruiser up to that wall then went over the hood/roof.

Originally Posted By giantpune:

He popped his head up and had an AR pointed at it from about 20ft away.  You gonna keep poking your head up and hoping you don't get your cheeks clapped?

What I saw, he dropped back down to the ground, then ran around to get a different angle to see if he could see the guy from the ground.  He didn't.  Then he stopped by his car and fumbled around trying to deploy and load his AR like a retard fucking a doorknob.  He needs to work on those gross motor reloads.

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Trump assassination attempt: Pennsylvania police release bodycam from deadly Butler rally
Police in Pennsylvania released bodycam footage Thursday showing the chaotic moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Trump
By Michael Dorgan , Audrey Conklin Fox News
Published August 8, 2024 1:17pm EDT | Updated August 8, 2024 3:17pm EDT


BUTLER, Pa. – 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 Trump in the ear, killing Corey Comperatore and injuring two others.  

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

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

One officer signals to hoist another officer onto the roof where would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was stationed. (Butler Township Police Department)

Crooks pointed his weapon at the officer who scaled the building, before the officer ultimately ducks his head and loses his grip on the roof’s edge and falls about 8 feet to the ground, spraining his ankle, Butler Township Manager Thomas Knights previously told Fox News Digital.

The footage captures Crooks toward the end as officers surround his body after countersnipers fatally shot him.

"I'm f---ing p---ed. We couldn't find him," another officer can be heard saying in the bodycam footage.
Bodycamera footage shows an officer spotting Thomas Crooks on the roof of the AGR building seocnds before he opened fire.


Buildings that are adjacent to The Butler Farm Show, site of a campaign rally for former President Trump, are seen on July 15 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

"Before you motherf---ers came up here, I popped my head up there like an idiot by myself, dude," the officer who was boosted onto the roof says. "Then he turned around and I f---ing dropped, and I started f---ing, I was calling out, ‘Bro, f---ing on top of the roof.’ F---ing, we’re not on the same frequency?"

Butler Township PD Lt. Matthew Pearson told a local outlet that the officer was unable to draw his weapon since he was hanging from the building.

Seconds later, Crooks opened fire and grazed Trump’s right ear. Three rallygoers were also shot, including Comperatore, 50, who was killed protecting his family from danger.

Additional footage from the Butler Township police department shows officers immediately after Crooks was neutralized:

David Dutch and James Copenhaver were injured after being shot at the rally. They have both since returned home, and Copenhaver's attorney provided an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital as he continues to recover.

Officers surround Thomas Matthew Crooks on the AGR roof after countersnipers killed him. (Butler Twp Police Dept.)

In other bodycam video, officers are clearly confused about why the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building, where Crooks shot from, was unmanned.

"I thought you were on the roof?" one officer says.

There also appears to be confusion about whether the shooter was neutralized and why the shooter wasn't taken out before he opened fire.

PA OFFICERS ASK WHY ROOF CROOKS SHOT FROM WAS UNMANNED

"If you’d all had a gun up there … I’d have shot him. He wouldn’t have ripped out a gun up there," one officer says in the bodycam.

The footage is the latest crucial piece of publicly available information released that attempts to shed light on exactly what transpired that day and what efforts were put in place to stop Crooks.
The Butler Farm Show, site of a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump

The security breaches that paved the way for the shooting have been muddied by finger-pointing among the various agencies involved at the local, state and federal levels.

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said video of someone moving along a roof minutes before Trump was shot confirms a "failure."

The video, taken by Copenhaver and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, shows a figure moving across the roof of the AGR building just minutes before gunfire rang out at Trump's rally.

The FBI previously revealed that Crooks had driven to the rally site at 11 a.m. on the day of the shooting and spent an hour there before heading home.

Crooks did not return to the scene until 3:50 p.m. Local law enforcement officers, in their designated positions, spotted him for the first time around 5:10 p.m. — approximately 50 minutes before Trump took the stage, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU).

BUTLER POLICE GATHER WITNESSES AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT:

On his return to the rally site, Crooks flew a drone about 200 yards away from where Trump was going to be speaking, according to the FBI. The FBI later said that no photos or videos were taken from the drone and that the agency found no memory card in the drone.
Thomas Matthew Crooks crawling on a roof moments before he attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

At 5:30 p.m., local law enforcement snapped a picture of Crooks and escalated it to command.

"Kid learning around building we are in," an officer wrote in a text message, along with an image of Crooks. "AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out."

"I lost sight of him," the officer added.

A follow-up message said: "Call it in to command and have a uniform check it out."

By 6:12 p.m., the "kid" would be killed by a counter-sniper after he opened fired on the rallygoers.


On the day of the rally, Crooks parked his vehicle and flew a drone between about 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. about 200 yards from where the former president would be speaking on July 13. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified during a July 17 congressional hearing that Crooks had been at the rally site for about 70 minutes the morning of the assassination attempt.

Fox News Digital is reviewing the bodycam footage. This post will be updated.

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.

Originally Posted By Chokey:

Richard M Nixon resigned the presidency 50 years ago today. Nixon was removed in a "silent coup" by the same people who killed JFK, tried to assassinate Reagan  installed Obama and impeached and tried to assassinate Trump. https://t.co/R0hoPeHFLQ pic.twitter.com/SIJeEkfOKf

Roger Stone  (@RogerJStoneJr) August 8, 2024

Originally Posted By realwar:
'They threw us under the bus': Pennsylvania cops fume after Trump shooting debacle as Secret Service attempts to deflect blame


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Anger is growing among law enforcement and local officials in Pennsylvania over what they see as the Secret Service's attempts to pass the buck on who was to blame for Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

'They threw us under the bus,' one cop in Butler told DailyMail.com exclusively.

The fury is over Secret Service claims that anything outside the perimeter set up around Trump's rally in Butler was the responsibility of local law enforcement agencies.

'The Secret Service came out here more than a month ahead of time and met with all the local agencies. They tell us exactly what to do, exactly what they want and exactly how they want it. It's all on them,' he added.


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Butler Township commissioner Edward Natali claimed the USSS had been 'covering their own backsides'




'If they say, 'We want 100 troopers out here' they get 100 troopers out here. We're not a bunch of cowboys out here doing whatever the hell we want.

'They're absolutely passing the buck.'  

The officer spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his allegations against the federal agency charged with protecting ex-presidents like Trump.

But Butler Township commissioner Edward Natali was not so reticent to speak out.





On Tuesday he accused the Secret Service of being 'uninformed, lying, or covering their own backsides' adding it was 'completely disgusting to see finger pointing has become the priority'.

'I want to say as clearly as can be said, the Butler Township Police Department had no security detail for this event. There were seven officers all assigned to traffic detail,' Commissioner Edward Natali, 59, wrote on Facebook.

'Anyone who says so, reports on it, implies it, etc... is uninformed, lying, or covering their own backsides.'

He called an unnamed Secret Service agent pointing the finger at local police 'a very transparent deflection'.



'It is completely disgusting to see that finger-pointing has become the priority, when we had four people shot, with one of the four fatally wounded,' Natali wrote.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has come under intense pressure since Trump's brush with death. She has been subpoenaed to appear before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Monday.




The current Butler law enforcement officer who spoke with DailyMail.com, dismissed Cheatle's words as 'excuses' and pointed to the security measures taken in 2020 when 15,000 people attended a rally for the former president at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport – an operation overseen by the agency's previous director, the Trump-appointed James Murray.

The officer who was familiar with the event and those measures said, 'Back then they had so many snipers. They were all over the place. Everywhere you looked.

'It was the most secure place on the planet.

'And this time they only have four because of sloping roofs and they still try to pass the buck to the locals?'

The SWAT team from neighboring Beaver County provided two of the four sniper teams on Saturday – but a former top Beaver County law enforcement official told DailyMail.com that the idea of preventing snipers from setting up on a sloped roof was 'insane'.

'If my people were running the scene, there would have been someone on that roof,' the retired official said.

'The spotter team we've seen on TV that engaged the shooter, they were on a sloped roof. And I know when Vice President Pence came we posted on top of a building with a sloped roof,' they said.

'You put your sniper where the sniper needs to be.'




The source said that Secret Service would have been directing local police at the event, and that it was likely their lack of communication or indecision that caused the delay in taking out Crooks.

'They would coordinate where everybody was going to be, what everybody was going to do. They provide the protocols,' the former top official said.

'I can't imagine anyone knowing he was on the roof without using force necessary to stop that from happening.

'It's a very small area. You're talking yelling 100 yards, or a radio or cell phone. So I don't understand what the disconnect was – whether they were told not to engage.'

They said that for previous visits to the area by then-Vice President Mike Pence, the Secret Service was similarly under-resourced.

'Everything was run by the Secret Service by their protocols, but they were always understaffed. They always heavily relied on the locals,' the source said.



'It was frustrating because we had hundreds of hours of overtime that we had to pay for all the different levels of police and government, and none of it was ever reimbursed.

'But you do it for the protection of the community.



'One of the things that made you angry was they come in and make all these demands,' the top former official added.

'They wanted a police motorcade and ambulance. But they had no way to get the resources.

'The team leader did not have the resources that he needed, and that was for guarding a sitting Vice President.'

The ex-official said that each branch of law enforcement would be on different radio frequencies, and communication may have broken down between local SWAT and the Secret Service command.



'We did not have access to the radios that the Secret Service had and they didn't have access to ours. And the state police are also on separate frequencies,' the source said.

'You'd have to have one of our people embedded with the Secret Service so they could communicate what we were receiving and seeing. We'd have somebody standing beside their boss at their headquarters, relaying information.'


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Beaver County bore the brunt of filling in gaps for the Secret Service at Saturday's rally, having the largest SWAT team in the region.

Sources said the team has around 40 officers, including snipers, forced entry teams and a dozen hostage negotiators, who all regularly train and work with the ATF, FBI and state police.

The anonymous Butler officer revealed to DailyMail.com that a Butler Township Police Department patrolman who came face to face with Crooks and has been hailed a 'hero' by the force's acting chief, did not 'retreat' but attempted to reach for his own gun only to fall and injure himself.

He said, 'People keep saying he should have shot him, he should have stopped him, but you have to understand that officer was given a boost up by another officer and was using both hands to pull himself up over the edge of that roof to see what was going on, when he's confronted by this guy pointing a gun at him.

'He reached for his gun, lost his balance and fell and broke his ankle.'


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Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel:

he broke his left hand and knocked out chuck with the weakest right hand punch possible. I seen Uria Faber break both his hands and still fight. But again, thats different than a broken ankle. Due to carrying your body weight. I guess its possible the officer was able to do all that running with a broken ankle. It would help to have audio. But mark me down as skeptical. There's nothing that gives me the indication "the hero" had a broken ankle.

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:
Broken ankle or not he sure hauled ass back to the parking lot when he turned tail, and he was mr tough guy getting back up on that roof lickety split like nothing after the shots and Crooks dead. And there were already cops up there. He tried to draw then fell? Bullshit, but why not try to get boosted up again? I’ve broken my ankle and you’re not running around right after.

Pfff “hero”

Originally Posted By DaGoose:


I've broken mine also and continued to ski down the rest of the mountain I was on.  Different people have different thresholds for pain.

As for getting boosted back up, you just dropped because someone swung a rifle at you, you would have to be retarded to pop your head back up in the same area as the person on the roof with the rifle now knows what location you are in.

As for going to get his rifle, I sure wouldn't want to go up against a rifle with a pistol.

Originally Posted By JohnnyLoco:


Why didn’t he try to get back on or find another spot to climb up? He runs off to his car like he’s a teenage girl.

At the end of the day the sheriff or whoever told another bs story, just like Uvalde, of him barely hanging there and falling 8 feet. Their ass needs to be held accountable for that, lying sacks of shot, typical cops.

Originally Posted By Mauser-Oberndorf-AN:

You sure are judgemental.  

Originally Posted By DaGoose:


I've broken mine also and continued to ski down the rest of the mountain I was on.  Different people have different thresholds for pain.

As for getting boosted back up, you just dropped because someone swung a rifle at you, you would have to be retarded to pop your head back up in the same area as the person on the roof with the rifle now knows what location you are in.

As for going to get his rifle, I sure wouldn't want to go up against a rifle with a pistol.

Originally Posted By Walleyeguy24:


Or maybe he wants cops to act like the fucking tough guys they portrait themselves to be when picking on elderly people and children. Instead, when it becomes time to act on an actual threat (as high value as existence in the entire world), they tuck tail and run. There are DOZENS of cops there. Per usual and like Uvalde, none of them did their job well.