They had at least two minutes to figure it out. That seems more than enough time to make a determination, if comms are working, and how can't that be working?. That does not imply malice, but then malice absolutely describes the attitude of media and the deep state about Trump and MAGA.
Raised on a ranch. Thirty miles from the nearest paved highway. And a lot further from town. We got electricity when I was seven. And running water when I was 12. Didn't see a TV until I went to high school. Didn't think much of it then. And even less now.
But our house was full of books - so after chores...
тАЬAccording to the AP, who spoke to two law enforcement officials on condition of anonymity, rallygoers noticed a man climbing to the top of the roof of the nearby building and warned local law enforcement. This is when one local officer climbed to the roof and confronted Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder [?] as Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump...тАЭ https://www.newsweek.com/police-officer-found-trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-roof-minutes-before-shooting-report-1925027
We can't scapegoat that one officer. Local law enforcement one would hope, would have a direct comm to SS. Spotters would have been able to see if he had a gun. But none of that seems to have happened. That, and the fact that the roof was unsecure, makes it seem to me like gross incompetence caused by systemic malice.
There has been a massive coordination of communications from top to bottom for decades. That goes back to Columbine in 1999 when local police departments around suburban Denver couldn't talk to each other. Now 25 years later it is exceedingly rare not to have mutual aid communication at the local, county and state level and dovetailing that with federal directly or via dispatcher is not a far fetched concept. Not just LEO but fire rescue and aviation. The nation has spent many billions of dollars with contractors such as Motorola to develop this infrastructure. I'd be highly suspicious to hear elements of a detail such as this took more than a few seconds for information to be passed from the individual sheriff's deputy to the USSS incident commander. If the communication system was compromised and not functioning that alone would should be a reason to implement a procedure to figure out why and protect people. If nothing else, never mind the president and USSS responsibility, the local and state police should have done something to watch out for their citizens in the crowd. If this was a concert or county fair and some nut climbed up on a roof with a rifle wouldn't the police swarm to stop it? When detailed to a federal event do they no longer have a responsibility to their primary job? Maybe they only swarm like that when it's lucrative and a civil forfeiture is afoot.
They had at least two minutes to figure it out. That seems more than enough time to make a determination, if comms are working, and how can't that be working?. That does not imply malice, but then malice absolutely describes the attitude of media and the deep state about Trump and MAGA.
Absolutely this. When the safety of your potential next president is clearly WtF?d... you pull him back, verify, and look sheepish if you must.
That's what competent people might do.
Which apparently excludes a significant percentage of ALL government employees.
Why do you have to be so dang logical, Andy??
Raised on a ranch. Thirty miles from the nearest paved highway. And a lot further from town. We got electricity when I was seven. And running water when I was 12. Didn't see a TV until I went to high school. Didn't think much of it then. And even less now.
But our house was full of books - so after chores...
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"house was full of books"
This explains much, Andy.
тАЬAccording to the AP, who spoke to two law enforcement officials on condition of anonymity, rallygoers noticed a man climbing to the top of the roof of the nearby building and warned local law enforcement. This is when one local officer climbed to the roof and confronted Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder [?] as Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump...тАЭ https://www.newsweek.com/police-officer-found-trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-roof-minutes-before-shooting-report-1925027
We can't scapegoat that one officer. Local law enforcement one would hope, would have a direct comm to SS. Spotters would have been able to see if he had a gun. But none of that seems to have happened. That, and the fact that the roof was unsecure, makes it seem to me like gross incompetence caused by systemic malice.
There has been a massive coordination of communications from top to bottom for decades. That goes back to Columbine in 1999 when local police departments around suburban Denver couldn't talk to each other. Now 25 years later it is exceedingly rare not to have mutual aid communication at the local, county and state level and dovetailing that with federal directly or via dispatcher is not a far fetched concept. Not just LEO but fire rescue and aviation. The nation has spent many billions of dollars with contractors such as Motorola to develop this infrastructure. I'd be highly suspicious to hear elements of a detail such as this took more than a few seconds for information to be passed from the individual sheriff's deputy to the USSS incident commander. If the communication system was compromised and not functioning that alone would should be a reason to implement a procedure to figure out why and protect people. If nothing else, never mind the president and USSS responsibility, the local and state police should have done something to watch out for their citizens in the crowd. If this was a concert or county fair and some nut climbed up on a roof with a rifle wouldn't the police swarm to stop it? When detailed to a federal event do they no longer have a responsibility to their primary job? Maybe they only swarm like that when it's lucrative and a civil forfeiture is afoot.