Police video reveals Secret Service ignored rooftop security warning
The case of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump has resurfaced. On Friday, a recording from a police officer's body camera emerged, unequivocally indicating that he had requested the Secret Service to secure the roof of a building from which the attacker later shot at the former U.S. president, days before Trump's rally.
7:53 AM EDT, August 10, 2024
The attacker shot at Trump from the roof of a building near the rally venue. The police released a recording of a conversation between two officers.
"I (expletive) told them they need to (expletive) put people up there. I told them (expletive) on Tuesday," the first officer explains to his colleague, referring to the Secret Service. "I wasn't even worried because I thought someone was on the roof," the first officer adds, but the second one responds: "They were inside."
Secret Service error
At the beginning of August, "The New York Times" reported that during the assassination attempt on Trump, Secret Service technology failed. The first information about the attacker on the roof came from a local police officer. He reported over the radio that there was an attacker with a long gun near the place where Trump was speaking.
His warning did not reach Secret Service agents due to the lack of integration of communication systems. The agency also did not use proven methods to boost the signal and did not engage a drone to monitor the event area.
The assassination attempt on Trump took place on July 13. The perpetrator was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired shots from a distance of 443 feet during a rally in Pennsylvania. Two people were injured, and one person died.
