I thin this is a good summary of the kind of motive that is being developed:
nypost.com
Thanks for the link, @Cindizzi !
I know it's always hindsight and all... but why didn't they simply delay Trump coming out until they had engaged with this potential threat and determined that he was or was not actually a threat. Surely nobody should be on a roof near the target they are protecting. Why not err on the side of caution and just simply delay Trump coming out to speak for a few more minutes while someone climbed up there and got this resolved.Admittedly with each new article read my ire grows.
So many chances to stop this and Mr. Comperatore would still be with us.
Never mind the secret service and local LE's changing accounts !
Conflicting Accounts Emerge About Security at Trump Rally
Federal and local officials differed over where a sniper team was when a gunman fired at former President Donald J. Trump, adding to questions about the Secret Service response.www.nytimes.com
The director of the Secret Service said that the local forces were in the same building that the sniper fired from, but a local law enforcement official told The New York Times that was not the case, and that the officers were in an adjacent building.
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
Twenty minutes passed between the time USSS snipers first spotted Crooks on the roof and the time shots were fired at the former president, new information shows.abcnews.go.com
Secret Service counter snipers positioned on buildings close to the rally stage were aware the AGR building was being used as a staging area by law enforcement, sources said. Investigators believe that could have led to a delay in the Secret Service sharpshooters' reactions because they had to first figure out whether the suspect was a threat, sources said.
"Seeking that person out, finding them, identifying them, and eventually neutralizing them took place in a very short period of time, and it makes it very difficult," Cheatle said during the interview with ABC News.
Red emphasis mine.
If the secret service were looking at TC through their scopes, wouldn't they know he was already a threat ?
Further, wouldn't all of this (who was to be placed on which roof, or if some rooftops were not going to have security on them, etc.,) have been discussed beforehand ???
This entire crime and tragedy is a travesty and a disgrace.
Entirely preventable, imo.
Maybe ... we need to, "Make the Secret Service Great Again" ?
Omo.
Just blows my mind that this kid either figured this all out ahead of time or just got THAT lucky to pick the building that would be be difficult for the SS to get a good view of him. The fact he was inchworming up the back side of the building tells me he was worried about being seen and attempting to hide, but how did he know that no other sniper teams were anywhere behind where he was? Did he assume there would be none outside the secure area?Thanks for the link, @Cindizzi !
From the link :
The Post’s 3D model established that both units may have been hampered by the pitch of the building’s roof where Crooks was found, which rises roughly 3.5 ft from its exterior walls to its peak. According to the analysis, which placed a camera at the eye view of the teams, Crooks would likely not have been visible as he crawled up the roof to take his final shooting position.
The Post’s reconstruction shows that the northernmost Secret Service counter sniper team closest to the suspect — slightly more than 400 feet away and atop an approximately 23 foot tall barn — may have further struggled to see him because of two trees located between them.
Red emphasis mine.
My opinion on this is that the SS sniper teams could have been more able to see TC because the pitch of the roof TC was laying on is shorter.
If the trees were an obstacle, then either local LE snipers or simply the other pair of SS snipers should have taken up a position on the roof TC was on.
If the secret service was stretched thin that day, use one team on top of the roof that wasn't covered, as the other two buildings were close enough to each other that one team could've covered both rooftops ?
I get it this is from a layman's perspective.
However -- it's just common sense, imo.
Omo.
It could have been both when it finally came down to him making his choice of venue and target.
nypost.com
www.tmz.com
If they thought local LE had secured that building, then anyone on the roof must be local LE?
They should have had a counter sniper on the water tower, tallest thing in the area.Thanks for the link, @Cindizzi !
From the link :
The Post’s 3D model established that both units may have been hampered by the pitch of the building’s roof where Crooks was found, which rises roughly 3.5 ft from its exterior walls to its peak. According to the analysis, which placed a camera at the eye view of the teams, Crooks would likely not have been visible as he crawled up the roof to take his final shooting position.
The Post’s reconstruction shows that the northernmost Secret Service counter sniper team closest to the suspect — slightly more than 400 feet away and atop an approximately 23 foot tall barn — may have further struggled to see him because of two trees located between them.
Red emphasis mine.
My opinion on this is that the SS sniper teams could have been more able to see TC because the pitch of the roof TC was laying on is shorter.
If the trees were an obstacle, then either local LE snipers or simply the other pair of SS snipers should have taken up a position on the roof TC was on.
If the secret service was stretched thin that day, use one team on top of the roof that wasn't covered, as the other two buildings were close enough to each other that one team could've covered both rooftops ?
I get it this is from a layman's perspective.
However -- it's just common sense, imo.
Omo.
It's just so many failures or things that went wrong. They were watching him for a while before this. When did they loose sight of him? Did he go one direction and they simply thought he was leaving?
Yeah, that seems to be the logic. What’s weird is if that is the case, surely the SS knows that at this point. Instead of coming out and clearing that up, the head of the SS is talking about sloping roofs.
