Body camera footage shows local police anger at Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt

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Body camera footage shows local police anger at Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt
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A local police officer told a fellow officer after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that he warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured.

Body camera footage shows a chaotic law enforcement response to word that an armed man was on a roof at the rally grounds the day of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump FILE - Police officers stand at a road leading to the site of the Trump rally, where access is closed, as investigations into the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump continue, in Butler, Pa., July 14, 2024.

“I wasn’t even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof,” one officer says. He asked how “the hell” they could have lost sight of Crooks after spotting him acting suspiciously if law enforcement had been on top of the building. The other officer responded: “They were inside.”Travis Scott is arrested at a Paris hotel after altercation with a security guard, prosecutors saywhy that roof was not better secured.

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