A local law enforcement commissioner revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump, raising more questions for the embattled US Secret Service.
www.yahoo.com
Excerpt ^^^^:
A municipal officer came face-to-face with Crooks several minutes before the would-be assassin fired on Trump, Paris testified.
Paris said that the brief confrontation came as a pair of local officers who had learned of Crooks’ position on the roof attempted to climb up and confront the shooter. But while the officer was “dangling” from the roof, Crooks aimed his rifle at the officer and the officer fell.
I know it's easy to armchair quarterback but as I stated
on Wednesday:
If I was the officer performing the boost and was not the "injured" officer, based on my fellow officer's exclamation I (think that I) would have un-holstered my sidearm and fired several shots in the air. THAT would get a LOT of attention and Trump would probably have ducked on his own.
After having someone point a weapon at my partner, that action would be logical and merited under the circumstances, IMO and it would have given a least a couple of minutes warning, more than enough for Trump to duck and the SS agents to get him down. Since that warning did not come, I am extremely glad that Trump turned his head at that moment, likely causing Crooks' shot to not be fatal.