Swat Team on Trump Assassination attempt communication failure. Audio short

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	All right, let me put this on the screen.
0:01.5	This is ABC News reporting this.
0:04.0	Pennsylvania SWAT team that took up positions to defend the former president.
0:08.5	ABC News, senior investigative correspondent, Aaron Kuterski, has the latest.
0:16.5	I remember standing in the parking lot talking to one of of the guys and we just became part of history.
0:22.5	Not in a good way.
0:26.6	The SWAT team from Beaver County, Pennsylvania knew something about the scrawny young man seemed off.
0:32.0	He can be seen in this video obtained by ABC affiliate WTAE skulking around former President Trump's rally.
0:38.0	Text messages between local snipers show they noticed Thomas Matthew Crooks at 4.26 p.m.
0:43.5	Nearly two hours before the attempted assassination that would injure Trump, kill a man, and severely hurt two others.
0:50.0	You see me go out with my rifle, one of the snipers texted, so he knows you guys are up there.
0:55.0	By 5.14 p.m., they grew suspicious.
0:58.0	He was looking up and down the building and just wandering around, and it just seemed out of place.
1:04.1	Greg Nichols snapped these photos of the shooter.
1:06.5	We had a text group between the local snipers that were on scene.
1:11.5	I'd sent those pictures out to that group and advised them of what I noticed and what I'd seen.
1:17.1	What do you think is transpiring once you send in what you've sent in?
1:23.2	I assume that there would be somebody coming out to, you know, speak with this individual or, you know, find out what's going on.
1:30.5	So how do you know if Greg's concerns about crooks are being relayed properly?
1:36.9	We don't. It's, we have to assume that when he put that information out to command,
1:42.9	that command took that information and did something with it.
1:46.9	We don't know if they did.
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