Questions mount over shooter's ability to access roof despite security presence
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Lawmakers express shock at apparent security lapses, while House speaker says chamber will conduct ā€˜full investigationā€™

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the ā€œsubject involvedā€ in the attempted assassination of former PresidentĀ Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.

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The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26Ā·
    4 months ago

    That ā€œvivid firsthand accountā€ is a dude making a pretty strong insinuation that the police and secret service were ignoring their attempts to point out the shooter and only acted after the shots were fired. This is gonna be a shit show.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      13Ā·
      4 months ago

      Odds are, assuming itā€™s at all true, the cops all assumed the guy with the rifle was Secret Service since thereā€™s now way Secret Service could miss such and obvious position to secure.

    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
      10Ā·
      4 months ago

      Someone asked, ā€œif he saw them for that long, why did he never whip out his phone and start recording?ā€

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12Ā·
        4 months ago

        To be fair, itā€™s a Trump rally not a tiktok convention. Like it or not these people genuinely love Trump and itā€™s no surprise theyā€™d be focusing on signaling police before anyone gets shot.

        That doesnā€™t mean he isnā€™t playing things up but thereā€™s no evidence of that so far.

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
          1Ā·
          4 months ago

          Lots of phones were recording Trumpā€™s bloody right side get hustled off stage, you can see a dozen of them from the footage of him getting shot.