Local SWAT team details account of Trump rally assassination attempt

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Published 2024-07-28
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, local SWAT details account of the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at his rally.

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All Comments (21)
  • @micclay
    Let me get this straight. A nerdy 20 year old got on a building 130 yards from the president after carrying a ladder and a rifle to the event, got to the top of the building that had cops in it, had several minutes to position himself all while hysterical people on the ground are alerting there's a shooter on the roof?
  • @masunshine2970
    I am so proud if those officers for telling the truth. God bless them for coming forward.
  • @jbalou4722
    Making it seem like a hit job more & more 😳😠
  • Thank you brave people for telling us the truth out loud about what we could see happening!
  • It’s actually scary that the secret service has failed on ALL aspects of their mission. No one was safe!!
  • @FlyWithMe_666
    Taking pictures, but not taking the initiative to do …. something …when a commmunication breakdown with SS occured.
  • @orianna1220
    So you have the interview, all recorded and are going to wait a day to release it????????????????
  • @tcmazz
    Question at what time did the counter snipers on the right side decided to turn around? This is when the the potential suspect became a threat, from what I can gather it was a full 2 mins. When the suspect now became a threat is when Trump should of been taken off the stage. But no they didn't which should lead everyone to conclude that this was an inside job!
  • @kevinleblanc47
    Local Law Enforcemen FAILED as well. All day they did nothing about not having communication ???? Local Law Enforcement was suppose to be responsible for that area and they Royally Screwed up not The Secret Service but everyone is slamming them.
  • Sounds like the people in these positions need to be replaced . They also need to see if monetary gain was involved.
  • That's what I wondered; why was there so little communication between local and secret service authorities?
  • @ruthtaylor1450
    If THAT doesn't scream the whole "assassination attempt" was set up by TFG and his QULTISTS, I don't know what would.
  • @Narcolepsykid
    Took them 2 weeks to get their story straight. @1:20 Makes me think of our modern day philosopher Kamala Harris "What can be, unburdened by what has been"
  • @mjkay8660
    I'm just kind of curious as to why the window was open in the barn behind the guy because you know somebody could have taken a shot from that position also
  • @Aereaux
    I am a Government Operations Liaison for the American Red Cross and in this position I am involved with the Emergency Operations organizations and the state, county and local levels. I have supported multiple real emergencies and a number of live training activities. In almost all of the after action meetings and reports the biggest problems and failures are always in communications. There are multiple organization using mutiple radio frequencies and regardless of the information that is put out, no one seems to know how to reach a particular orgainzation in real time. With all of the differenent orgnaizations that were invovled as part in providing security and protection during the rally, I am not supprised that organizations were not communicating with each other.
  • @dannyhayes664
    Is the officer referring to face to face communication as in a in person briefing or radio communication interoperability during the event ??
  • @OffTheGrid1982
    Imagine they all start describing their lunch break choices 🍟🍔🤣
  • @MrSanford65
    If I can relate that to my military experience in Iraq— there is an inhibitory difference between agents who’s only duty is to be in front line combat, and those a few steps back. Combat units usually have a centralized command that they have to ask permission to in order to shoot. But people like combat engineers like myself , did not. So in this case swat would have to ask permission to shoot— but the average police officer seeing this would’ve shot him dead right there, and filled out the paperwork later
  • @Melrose51653
    So, being trained officers they didn't ask for information or attempt communication with anyone else ? The local handling of this event has been questionable since day one.