In the newly released video, citizens can be seen seeing 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof from which he fired at the former US president.
“He’s going up on the roof, you see him? Is he lying down?”, “Let me see him, he is lying down”, they are heard saying. “Police, there’s someone on the roof here,” someone in uniform shouts.
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New video shows just how early on people spotted the Trump shooter and started alerting the police pic.twitter.com/ZC2wrsJNfm
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In a speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Biden said the attacker’s motives were still unclear and urged Americans to reject politically motivated violence.
“There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence, ever. Period. No exceptions. We cannot allow this violence to be normalized,” Mr. Biden said. “The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to calm down. We all have a responsibility to do that.”
More details emerged Sunday regarding the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who was killed following opening fire. Basic bomb-making material was found in the gunman’s house and in his vehicle. He was a member of a local gun club and a former classmate told him he had tried out for the high school gun team but failed.
The FBI is investigating whether Crooks was a politically motivated domestic violent extremist, and investigators are still looking into his background. Justice Department officials told reporters that investigators have Crooks’ phone and were examining it at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.
Law enforcement sources said bystanders spotted Crooks with a rifle on a rooftop regarding 400 feet from where Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania, and reported his presence to authorities. The Butler County Sheriff said a local police officer was lifted by another officer to look on the roof. Crooks pointed his rifle at the officer, who dropped it and fell.
Crooks then turned toward the scene and fired six to eight rounds using an AR-style weapon. A Secret Service sniper soon shot and killed him. Trump was quickly dragged from the scene by armed agents, blood running down the side of his face.
Trump took to the social media platform Truth Social on Sunday morning, saying that “only God prevented the unthinkable from happening.”
Earlier, Mr. Biden ordered an independent review of security at the rally to assess what happened and said he had directed the Secret Service to review security measures for this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump will be formally named. as a party member. candidate. Trump landed in the city on Sunday night.
A former FBI agent, who now has a position as a commentator on Fox News, said that the former US president had requested an increase in his security, especially for this particular gathering, but without being listened to. “There have been repeated requests for increased security, not only at Trump’s residences, but at the presidential candidate’s side as well,” Dan Bongino reported.
Mr Trump and Mr Biden spoke on Saturday night in what a White House official described as a “good, short and respectful” call.
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