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Swat Team on Trump Assassination attempt communication failure. Audio short

Duration:: 7m
Broadcast on:: 30 Jul 2024
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Swat Team on Trump: Communication disaster led to the shooting of 4. #Trump #Sniper #Assassinationattempt NEW YORK — Something seemed off from the moment Beaver County SWAT sniper Gregory Nicol spotted a man skulking around the outskirts of the site where former President Donald Trump was about to take the stage on July 13. From his second-floor post inside the AGR complex at the fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, Nicol noticed the young man in a gray T-shirt, lurking. "He was looking up and down the building ... It just seemed out of place," Nicol, assistant leader of the Beaver County SWAT team, told ABC News in an interview that airs Monday on Good Morning America, "It just didn't seem right." Nicol noticed an unattended bike and backpack. And he saw the man looking up and around, then pulling a rangefinder from his pocket. There was no apparent reason to have a distance-gauging device at a political rally featuring the man who, in a few days, would accept his party's presidential nomination. The sharpshooter snapped pictures of the suspicious-looking man and the bike, then flagged it to fellow snipers from his team assigned to the event and called it into the command group. Nicol would be the first officer to issue a warning about 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Within an hour, Crooks would open fire from the roof of that very building, less than 200 yards from the rally's stage, wounding Trump on live TV, killing one person in the crowd, and critically injuring two more. 💯 Join our mission to uncover the truth in crime! Support Police Off the Cuff on Patreon for exclusive content and insider access. Click now and become a part of our detective squad: https://www.patreon.com/policeoffthecuff 💬 Did you like this video? Let me know in the comments below! ✅ Subscribe to Police off the Cuff right now! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceofftheCuff?sub_confirmation=1 Or become a YouTube Member to get access to perks here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo80Xa1PYTc23XN_Yjp8pA/join --------------- Welcome to the Official YouTube Channel of Police off the Cuff This is where the veil of mystery on high-profile cases is lifted through the sharp insights of seasoned law enforcement professionals and where real crime meets real analysis. This is your destination for exploring the complexities of true crime stories, illuminated by the rich experience and street wisdom of those who have walked the thin blue line. At the helm is retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a figure of authority in the crime investigation arena, with a diverse background that spans across acting, broadcasting, and academia. Bill's profound knowledge and keen analytical skills, combined with his empathetic approach, make each story not just heard but felt. Phil's extensive investigative experience, coupled with his genuine passion and characteristic Brooklyn charm, adds depth and relatability to the discussions. ➡️ Here we navigate the intricate web of the nation's most captivating crime stories, offering not just stories, but an education on the realities of criminal investigation. Their combined expertise provides a unique lens through which the stories are told, offering insights that only those with firsthand experience can provide. Join us on this journey into the heart of true crime, where every episode promises a deep dive into the minds of criminals and the tireless efforts of law enforcement to bring them to justice. --------------- 📲 Follow Police off the Cuff on social media: Instagram ▶️ https://www.instagram.com/policeoffthecuff Facebook ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/Policeoffthecuff-312794509230136/ Twitter ▶️ https://twitter.com/policeoffthecuf 🎧 Dive deep into true crime with Police Off the Cuff Podcast. Join retired NYPD expert Bill Cannon as he dissects infamous cases with insider insight: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1 ☑️ Support Police Off the Cuff and help us bring you more captivating crime stories. Every contribution makes a difference! Choose your preferred way to donate: Venmo: https://venmo.com/William-Cannon-27 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/policeoffthecuff1gma --------------- 📚 Disclaimer: This video may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. --------------- #PoliceOffTheCuff

All right, let me put this on the screen. This is ABC News reporting this. Pennsylvania SWAT team that took up positions to defend the former president. ABC News senior investigative correspondent, Aaron Kutturski, has the latest. I remember standing in the parking lot and talking to one of the guys and we just became part of history. Not in a good way. (crowd cheering) The SWAT team from Beaver County, Pennsylvania knew something about the scrawn a young man seemed off. He can be seen in this video obtained by ABC affiliate WTAE skulking around former president Trump's rally. Text messages between local snipers show they noticed Thomas Matthew crooks at 4.26 PM, nearly two hours before the attempted assassination that would injure Trump, kill a man, and severely hurt two others. You see me go out with my rifle, one of the snipers texted, so he knows you guys are up there. By 5.14 PM, they grew suspicious. He was looking up and down the building and just wandered around and it just seemed out of place. Greg Nichols snapped these photos of the shooter. If we had a text group between the local snipers ever on scene, I'd sent those pictures out to that group and advised them of what I noticed and what I'd seen. What do you think is transpiring once you send in what you've sent in? I assume that there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual or find out what's going on. - So how do you know if Greg's concerns about crooks are being relayed properly? - We don't, we have to assume that when he put that information out to command, that command took that information and did something with it. We don't know if they did. - None of the concerns appears to have reached members of Trump's Secret Service detail. The Washington Post reports they've complained they were never made aware of the warnings. In their first public comments about the assassination attempt members of the Beaver County SWAT team described to ABC News what they consider to be failures of planning and communication that would prove catastrophic. - We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service snipers whenever they arrived and that never happened. So I think that that was probably a pivotal point where I started thinking things were wrong because that never happened and we had no communication with the Secret Service. - You had no communication with the Secret Service. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend's still laughing me to this day. - Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be to be. - All on that Saturday. - No, not until after the shooting, I believe. - Yeah. - And by then, it was too late. - Bobby, your thoughts? - Well, rages, I mean, I can't believe it happened that way. You know, when we did the planning for events, we had a checklist that we would go down the morning of the event and then an hour before the event and then at event time, you know, like much like a pilot would go through a checklist around a plane or much like you've seen in the movies where NASA, you know, in mission control, everybody's going, are you a go, are you a go, are you a go, all the different systems, we would have that, bomb techs, are you a go, SWAT, are you a go, hazmat's in place. Everybody's where they're supposed to be and then we know we're ready to go for the event. You know, and yet, you know, we all have these million RV command posts and, you know, every city has them and every agency has them. And so you, you, you pull them in together and you have that kind of communication. You have somebody from each agency in there, this lack of communication. The fact that they had no briefing, I would have had about three briefings that day in person with everybody involved. One first thing in the morning, one at the midday and one just before the event's about to start. I mean, that's the way you do these things. It's pretty boilerplate and it's pretty routine, you know, in all of the events that I've been in and all the agency I've worked with, everybody understands the process and here, it was just an abandonment of every principle that we worked with. You know, Bobby, when the one SWAT team member said, we assumed and I always think of that word assume what we were taught that it meant, there's little kids, you know, that never assume, you know, because-- - Yeah, I mean, there was, you know, the two things that came out recently in those days, the fact that, you know, we found out a couple of days ago that there was no briefing the day of and then I think yesterday or today, you know, there was those text messages where the guy says, "You might want to let the Secret Service know." And I thought that was so casual and so the lack of urgency, you might want to let them know. I would say, no, I've got this guy detained. Somebody sent the Secret Service over here to grab him and take him off property and debris from outside of the venue. You know, we've had that. Look, and sometimes you make a mistake. I remember several years ago, you know, somebody of the kitchen staff lost their card entering the venue where the Oscars were being held. He didn't have his ID on him. Somebody braced him, you know, we brought him outside. You know, it was a mistake after a while. We knew who he was and he supervised it again. We dusted him off, apologized and sent him back in, but you have to err on the side of caution. You have to err on the side of getting them away from the principal, away from the venue and figure everything out, even if they're slightly suspicious and then dust him off, apologize, send him back in if you have to. But here they just, there was just no urgency with respect to a very suspicious person and the former president of the United States about to take the stage. - You know, Phil, I know that you had mentioned before to me that the fact that they had this suspicious guy and then they lost sight of him, the next communication goes to the president's detail. Do not let him get on the stage. Go ahead, Phil. - 100% of Bill, you and I talked about it earlier. Once they had a person using a range following the acting suspiciously, he should have been detained. I said that to you earlier. I would have detained him throughout the event. I would have made sure he didn't have access to a backpack or anything else, a cell phone, anything like that. And we're going to talk to him. We're going to say, listen, we're going to run a check, keep him detained. Once the event is over, the principal's out of there, that's a different story. You can follow up with him later on. But I think that you're 100% right, Billy. Why didn't they have communication right to his detail? His detail should have been told, listen, we want to delay it for 15 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever, till we try and locate a suspicious individual. There were multiple people spotting this kid. This wasn't just one set of eyes. There were multiple people plus civilians saying there's a guy on the roof. There was an ample amount of time to have prevented this shooting. I'm talking about within two or three minutes. There was ample time to prevent it, and it would have saved the life of the volunteer fireman that was killed, and the other two people shot, and President Trump getting shot in the year. There was ample time. But going back to the planning, there was a lot of things that were missed early on that he should have never been able to access that roof.