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Security Fail: Drone surveils Trump shooting location Audio short

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4 β€’ 870 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Crooks scoped out the rally site a day before the Secret Service did. He used a drone to survey the site while the Secret Service did not seek permission to use one for the rally. He researched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from John F. Kennedy when he fatally shot the president in 1963 β€” the answer is about 265 feet β€” and managed to climb onto a roof that was about 400 feet from Mr. Trump at its closest point. The Secret Service left that roof unmanned.

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0:00.0

Yeah, about the fact that he reconed it.

0:02.3

He had a drone reconed it.

0:04.8

He built three IEDs with a remote control.

0:07.8

Yeah, that bothers me.

0:09.3

But his recon was at 345 that afternoon.

0:11.6

If you're going to recon something properly,

0:13.5

you would anticipate they would see you there at 345.

0:17.0

You would think that the venue is probably locked down.

0:18.9

My venues were locked down the night before we ran dogs through and we locked it down the night before.

0:24.4

And so you would have thought that he would have reconded earlier.

0:29.1

He did, Bobby.

0:30.0

Actually, if you look at that graphic that was just up at 11 a.m.

0:33.3

He went to the site.

0:34.9

He drove in the area and then he went back home.

0:37.3

Then he told his parents he was going to the range around 1. in the area and then he went back home.

0:40.8

Then he told his parents he was going to the range around 1.30 p.m.

0:43.0

3.45, he went back to the scene.

0:45.2

That was the second time in the same day.

0:47.5

He had purchased the ammo earlier in the morning.

0:49.0

Then he had gone back the second time.

0:54.7

He flew the drone, but he only flew for a few minutes, it looks like. It was at 4 p.m. he was seen driving in the area.

0:58.3

And then 5 p.m., that's when he was identified as the suspicious person.

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