Local news getting Beaver County Cops on the record.
https://youtu.be/4X3tCcfBZWw?si=Iftbfg5e_o_upHGf
2 counter snipers in AGR building. One left to look for Crooks.
About 10 minutes before shooting Crooks was seen quickly moving between buildings. They reported that to command
The Beaver County district attorney and head of Beaver County's SWAT team strongly disagreed with the new Secret Service chief's criticisms of local law enforcement's actions at Donald Trump's rally in Butler Township on July 13.
Longtime Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley released photos of the snipers who were positioned inside the AGR building. There were two from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit and one from Butler.
This is not a good look.
Beaver County ESU Commander Pat Young said all the snipers were sitting about 3 feet back from the windows. Because they were positioned inside the building, none had a clear view of the roof where the shooter was.
Bad Communication.
Beaver was talking to Butler at the County Command post. County would then talk to Secret Service.
We were able to have direct communications with Butler ESU the entire time via tactical frequency," he added.
KDKA-TV's Jennifer Borarsso asked, "Did you know they had been communicating with the Secret Service?"
I don't know that for sure, I was not in their command post," Young said.
Israel's military claimed it killed Hezbollah's most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday, in retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack that killed 12 youngsters three days ago which it blamed on the Lebanese armed group.
The United States says Shukr played a central role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. military personnel, and had put a bounty of up to $5 million on his head, according to the U.S. government's Rewards for Justice website.
Butler County Swat member fired his rifle at Crooks from the ground.
Trump rally gunman stopped firing after local officer shot at him
Thomas Matthew Crooks temporarily recoiled from his rooftop perch and did not shoot again before he was killed by a Secret Service countersniper.
The shot from the local officer caused the would-be assassin to temporarily recoil from his perch on a rooftop, according to the two officials and a Washington Post analysis of video evidence. Crooks’s retreat coincided with a 10-second pause in shooting, according to audio experts who examined the gunshots
“I don’t know if the officer actually hit Crooks and don’t believe he fired the neutralizing shot,” Goldinger, who oversees the emergency services unit, said in a text message. But Goldinger said he believed the officer’s shot caused Crooks to stop firing his weapon, buying the Secret Service snipers time to kill the gunman.
Latest member of the Russian military establishment to be arrested.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that Dmitry Bulgakov, a former deputy defence minister, had been arrested and charged with corruption,
Bulgakov, who was in charge of military logistics until he was dismissed in September 2022, is the latest in a string of high-profile defence ministry figures to have been charged with corruption. The arrests are the biggest scandal to hit the Russian army in years and come at a time when the new defence minister, Andrei Belousov, an economist with no military experience, has been tasked with purging the army of corruption and streamlining its finances to fund what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
The clampdown on high-level corruption began on April 23 with the arrest of Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, a close ally of ex-defence ministry Sergei Shoigu. Since then, at least five military and defence officials have been arrested. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-ex-defence-minister-arrested-corruption-says-interfax-2024-07-26/
it appears a group chat of those meant to protect Trump were aware that gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was in their midst over 90 minutes before Trump was shot at, rather than an hour as the FBI had previously claimed. When one of the three countersnipers was about to call off at the end of their shift at around 4:26pm, they noticed a man who they later confirmed to be Crooks sitting on a picnic table
One of the two remaining snipers photographed Crooks multiple times and texted the pictures to the group chat.
'Kid learning around building we are in,' one wrote. 'I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.'
Members of former president Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and his top advisers have privately questioned why they were not informed that local police were tracking a suspicious person before that person opened fire on Trump at his July 13
Members of the Secret Service detail that protects Trump and was with him backstage have complained to confidantes and others inside the agency that they were never made aware of that warning, said three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity