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Thomas Crooks shooter of former President Trump did he act alone?

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Crooks shooter of former President Trump, did he act alone? #thomascrooks #donaldtrump #Assassination The Investigation: F.B.I. officials told Congress that the 20-year-old gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump used his cellphone and other devices to search for images of Trump and President Biden. Security Blind Spots: Even as investigators continue to examine what happened at the Trump rally, it is already clear that there were multiple missed opportunities to stop the gunman before the situation turned deadly. The Gunman: In interviews, former classmates of the suspect described him as intelligent but solitary, someone who tried to avoid teasing by fellow students. Secret Service Director: Kimberly Cheatle returned in 2022 to lead the agency she had served for nearly 30 years. Now, the assassination attempt on Trump has thrown her tenure into uncertainty. Fears of What’s Next: Among voters, there is growing anxiety that America’s political divide is nearly beyond repair, and the shooting only made things worse. A spectator who had been standing just outside the grounds said in an interview with the BBC that a few minutes into Mr. Trump’s speech, he noticed that someone was “bear-crawling up the roof,” clearly armed with a rifle, and that he tried to notify the police. Law enforcement officials later said that the gunman had opened fire from an elevated position outside the rally’s security perimeter. After the shooting, the gunman’s body was seen on the rooftop of one of the buildings to Mr. Trump’s right. An AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle was recovered at the scene, according to law enforcement officials. “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.” One spectator at the rally, Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, was shot and killed. Two others were critically injured. (NY Times)

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.

0:15.4

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

0:22.9

Folks, as we follow this investigation and the occurrence that happened in the attempted

0:30.7

assassination of former President Donald Trump, we are disturbed by many factors.

0:38.3

And of course, we live in a world where we want instant gratification.

0:43.3

We want to know the answers instantly.

0:45.3

And the nature of investigation is that you don't find out things instantly.

0:52.3

It takes the investigative body investigating this case,

0:57.1

time to uncover facts, circumstances,

1:02.3

electronic devices, computers, search warrants,

1:08.3

where the person of interest was, their routines, where they work, their interactions.

1:15.5

All of those things take lots of time.

1:19.1

And the other things that take much more time are perhaps communications that may be

1:26.7

encrypted via cell phone, via the computer, via social media.

1:33.3

So the searches and getting to the bottom this, everyone wants to know all of the time

1:40.3

and almost every investigation we uncover is motive.

1:46.5

And it's disturbing to many here that we cannot, or the FBI, cannot so far,

1:55.0

find a motive yet. Why did this happen? Why just, is it more nefarious than it looks?

2:03.8

It's been raised that this could be a conspiracy.

2:09.5

Were there government officials behind this?

2:11.7

Were there a deep, the deep state behind this?

2:16.1

Many people, of course, would love to see Donald Trump out of this race.

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