The building where 20-year-old Thomas Crooks shot Trump was not guarded by any agency – ‘Colossal failure’

The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump fired from a roof the Secret Service had said was outside the security perimeter — a fatal oversight the agency should not have made, two former Secret Service officials said. Two local Pennsylvania police officers who went to check on a tip about a suspect in the area were alone when one of them, lifted by a colleague to check the roof, was confronted by the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, he said. Butler County Sheriff Michael Sloop. That exposed a huge gap in security, said Kenneth Valentine, a former Secret Service special agent: “He shouldn’t have been allowed on the roof,” he said. Valentine added that the agency should also have someone to monitor rooftops and stop the threat. The Secret Service, which is responsible for […]
Source: News Beast

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