I'ma try to provide clarity.
A few more videos of what the local LEO saw :[/COLOR]
The CNN video has a couple different bodycams. In the upper right next to the timestamp is the bodycam ID. So for example, the bodycam at the beginning is the Butler Township cop that TC aimed at 30 seconds before TC fired at the stage.
Well, fast-forward the video to where the upper right timestamp says 18:22:35
It's two friends walking side-by-side, and one of them is Sniper Nicol's sniper partner. Let's call them Friend and NicolPartner.
They're walking towards the Butler Township cop who had radioed "We got him...We don’t have him in custody yet but he’s right straight in front of me by the pine tree standing upwards. He had a backpack." Let's call him Butler.
Here's the dialog...
NicolPartner: The secret service, I told them that freaking Tuesday. I told them to post freaking guys over here.
Butler: I thought
you guys were on the roof.
NicolPartner: No, we're inside. I told them to post freaking guys over here.
Butler: I wasn't even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof. I thought that's how like, how in the hell can you lose a guy walking back here? Why weren't you on the roof?
Friend: They were inside.
Butler: In the building???!!!
NicolPartner: Why weren't we? Because I thought we were going to post guys over here.
Seems exactly like I tried to explain here 36 hours ago.
The Butler Township cop and all the other cops except 3 are thinking to themselves, good thing we have somebody up on the second floor ready to shoot him depending on what he pulls outta the backpack.