ApotheosisMMC.
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This news is from yesterday and is partly about the accusations between the secret service and the police, according to two sources (one is a former agent who is surprised by the mistake of leaving that vulnerable point unguarded and who points out that ultimately it is the responsibility of the secret service to make the police do their part of the job) the secret services pointed out the roof from where the shooter fired as a vulnerable point before the rally, It is also mentioned, as has already been hinted, that at least some of the snipers were focused on doing counter-sniper work so their vision was elsewhere.
In this other news it is as if they went out of their way to convey that Trump could be shot again given the conditions... I find it curious that part of the statements come from Republican personnel.
Rooftop where gunman shot at Trump was identified as a security vulnerability before rally: sources
Two sources told NBC News that the Secret Service flagged a building near the rally site as a security concern. Investigators will be scrutinizing how a gunman was allowed to scale it.
The rooftop where a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally was identified by the Secret Service as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, two sources familiar with the agency’s operations told NBC News.
The building, owned by a glass research company, is adjacent to the Butler Farm Show, an outdoor venue in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service was aware of the risks associated with it, the sources said.
“Someone should have been on the roof or securing the building so no one could get on the roof,” said one of the sources, a former senior Secret Service agent who was familiar with the planning.
Understanding how the gunman got onto the roof — despite those concerns — is a central question for investigators scrutinizing how a lone attacker managed to shoot at Trump during Saturday’s campaign event.
The Secret Service worked with local law enforcement to maintain event security, including sniper teams poised on rooftops to identify and eliminate threats, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. But no officers were posted on the building used by the would-be assassin, outside the event’s security perimeter but only about 148 yards from the stage — within range of a semiautomatic rifle like the one the gunman was carrying.
The Secret Service had designated that rooftop as being under the jurisdiction of local law enforcement, a common practice in securing outdoor rallies, Guglielmi said. Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said his office maintains an Emergency Services Unit team, which deployed four sniper teams and four “quick response teams” at the rally. But he said the Secret Service agents were in charge of security outside the venue.
“They had meetings in the week prior. The Secret Service ran the show. They were the ones who designated who did what,” Goldinger said. “In the command hierarchy, they were top, they were No. 1.”
Goldinger said the commander of the Emergency Services Unit told him it was not responsible for securing areas outside the venue. “To me, the whole thing is under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service. And they will delineate from there,” he said.
The former senior Secret Service agent also said that even if local law enforcement “did drop the ball,” it’s still the agency’s responsibility “to ensure that they are following through either beforehand or in the moment.”
“Just because it is outside of the perimeter, it doesn’t take it out of play for a vulnerability, and you’ve got to mitigate it in some fashion,” the source added.
In this other news it is as if they went out of their way to convey that Trump could be shot again given the conditions... I find it curious that part of the statements come from Republican personnel.
Secret Service says there are no plans to change security measures for RNCLaw enforcement officers reiterated their confidence in the security apparatus already in place despite the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Secret Service and local law enforcement representatives said Sunday there are no plans to change the security measures for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week.
Law enforcement officers reiterated their confidence in the security apparatus already in place, saying their security footprint will remain as planned despite Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
“We’re not anticipating any changes to our operational security plans for this event,” said the Secret Service’s RNC coordinator, Audrey Gibson-Cicchino. She declined to answer several questions about Saturday’s events in Pennsylvania, citing her RNC-specific jurisdiction.
Gibson-Cicchino emphasized that the security planning in Milwaukee has been underway for 18 months and has already been designated the highest level of security event.
Pressed about specific threats to this week’s gathering, Michael Hensle, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Milwaukee, said that there is “no known specific articulated threat to the RNC during or any specific individual attendee” but that there are higher levels of online “chatter” about the assassination attempt.
At a separate news briefing earlier Sunday, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said the number of online threats of violence, which was already on the upswing, has risen since the attack.
Given the possibility of guns in the soft security perimeter around the Fiserv Forum arena, where the convention will take place — a consequence of Wisconsin’s open-carry laws — Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said the city is unable to restrict guns anywhere in Milwaukee under those state regulations.
“We as a city cannot legislate out of that,” Norman said of the state’s open-carry allowances, adding that from a “law enforcement aspect, we have to operate within those guidelines.”
Rooftop where gunman shot at Trump was identified as a security vulnerability before rally: sources
Two sources told NBC News that the Secret Service flagged a building near the rally site as a security concern. Investigators will be scrutinizing how a gunman was allowed to scale it.
www.nbcnews.com
Secret Service says there are no plans to change security measures for RNC
Law enforcement officers reiterated their confidence in the security apparatus already in place despite the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
www.nbcnews.com