SWAT expert Gene Petrino questioned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday.
A former SWAT commander balked at the 'audacity' of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle blaming the 'sloped roof' for not positioning snipers on the building where Thomas Crooks opened fire at Saturday's rally for former president Trump.
That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point,' Cheatle said in an interview with ABC News. 'And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof... the decision was made to secure the building from the inside.' 'This site plan should have identified that roof as a major vulnerability,' Petrino said, 'but there was no one there to protect it.
That shooter should never have been able to get on the roof, let alone get those shots off,' Petrino said. 'This is a massive security failure,' he continued. 'The person responsible is Cheatle – it always ends at the top.
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