The texts showed that an officer spotted Crooks occupying a suspicious area more than an hour-and-a-half before the July 13 rally commenced at 6 p.m. Previously, Secret Service officials said Crooks was first spotted an hour before the rally—an amount of time many lawmakers already considered to be egregious at a presidential candidate’s rally.
Other texts obtained by the Times revealed that an officer spotted Crooks using a range finder about 20 minutes before the rally began and snapped photos of him—but didn’t approach him.
The strangest part of this is people expecting cops to do something that might plausibly put them in harms way
Modern cops are almost exclusively all lazy cowards at this point.
It has also been ruled repeatedly that police do not have a duty to protect you. There is no requirement that they risk their lives to keep you or anyone else from harm unless they have a “special relationship” with you, meaning you are in their custody. The cops were there to work the metal detectors and direct traffic. There’s no way in hell they were going to take a bullet for Trump. That’s the Secret Service’s job.
Thanks SCOTUS, you ruled cops don’t have to protect and this is the result.
Hey, it’s nice to see that once in a while, we are all equal in the eyes of the law.
Cops aren’t trained in operational security. When you have a large event with multiple agencies and groups of people doing different things, then it’s easy to blend in if you act like you know what you’re doing. You can walk into almost any building if you throw on a high vis vest and carry a ladder. People will hold the door open for you and even let you into high security areas if you are smooth enough.
A button-down shirt/khakis and lanyard with a name badge often works, too, especially if you’re talking while using a Bluetooth headset and typing on a phone. People just assume you’re some low-level exec or IT support personnel, esp if your phone is on one of those tacky belt clips.
So… I guess cops literally aren’t here to protect anyone.
Whether you’re a kid in school, or a former president. Cops ain’t here for you.
Yeah, that was shown in Warren v. DC, in 1981.
So I’m guessing that no one from a foreign government has even tried to take out presidential candidates? Because this kid got extremely close all while openly researching past assassinations, scoped out the rally site before the secret service, flew his drone and even got spotted multiple times. I could only imagine how easy it would be for real professional killers funded by a government.
Perhaps the only reason it’s not been attempted is that Trump is the best bet for most enemy foreign governments.
I bet they will be now
This presidential protection detail has been provided by the Uvalde Sheriff’s Dept.
Agreed, we need to get the Secret Service to clean up their act before we end up risking the life of some better President!
Wish there had been this much scrutiny of the police’s behavior on Jan. 6.
wait they fucking did an uvalde? lmfao
Thin blue linotmyproblem
Secret Service and local PD absolutely deserve to get reemed out and punished for this gross incompetence and security failure.
This is a huge issue that needs to be remedied quickly, else all our current and future politicians are at risk from internal or foreign enemies of the state. Regardless of your political alignment, all our politicians deserve a secure environment without risk to their own lives.
Anyone that blows this off as, it was just Trump, is massively underestimating the scale of this issue.
Can’t wait to see these photos
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