New video posted to X shows the would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks bear crawling on the roof as bystanders point him out to law enforcement.
An officer was right next to the building as bystanders alerted him to the potential threat.
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Wild video shows the shooter crawling into position while folks point him out to law enforcement at Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/pYRvkSWZSb
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) July 15, 2024
A video of Crooks shooting from the rooftop before a Secret Service sniper fatally shot him was posted on Saturday.
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Video appears to show people in the crowd calling out to the sh**ter by name.
Secret Service was alerted that there was a suspicious person with a gun on the roof.
They didn’t do anything.
Unbelievable failure by Secret Service. pic.twitter.com/tharQ5hlc2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
At least two witnesses have come forward and told the media they warned police officers about the gunman crawling on the rooftop.
One Trump rallygoer told CBS News, “I was just standing there like everyone else, just waiting for Trump. And as Trump started, I noticed two officers looking for something or somebody.”
The witness added, “So I was looking around myself and seen a guy on top of one of the buildings go in between one building to the next and went and told the officer he was up there.”
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A witness to the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, says he saw the gunman on a roof and flagged the suspect to police right before shots rang out. https://t.co/nSwmWOaGFa pic.twitter.com/exD1ONtdih
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 14, 2024
Another witness who spoke to BBC News said the gunman was ‘bear crawling’ up the roof of the unsecured building. The witness said he was pointing at the gunman for two to three minutes and trying to alert police to the potential threat.
Police officers were running around clueless. Secret Service was looking in the direction of the shooter with their binoculars, according to the witness
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EYE WITNESS describes to BBC News reporter seeing man with rifle on roof of building firing shots at President Trump rally in Pennsylvania before being shot by Secret Service pic.twitter.com/8Dfk19FsgH
— Georgina (@gs_mick) July 13, 2024
A new report by NBC News revealed the Secret Service identified the rooftop next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania event as a security vulnerability days before the rally.
The agents failed to secure the building so a man with a rifle was able to climb up to the roof, position his scope, and fire several shots at President Trump.
A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear. Two rally attendees were wounded. One Trump supporter was fatally shot.
