Ronald Rowe Jr has told a congressional hearing he 'cannot defend' why the roof where the gunman opened fire was not better secured.
The acting director of the US Secret Service has said he is 'ashamed' of the security lapse prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Ronald Rowe Jr told a congressional hearing he had travelled to the site in Butler, Pennsylvania, and laid down on the roof from where the shots were fired. 'What I saw made me ashamed. As a law enforcement officer, and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured,' he said.
Read more:Trump to be interviewed by FBI after assassination attemptHow the security operation unfoldedHow a large tree may have shielded the gunman One man was shot dead and two other people were left seriously injured when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks opened fire on the former president, wounding his ear.
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