New Videos Show Police Frustration With Secret Service At Trump Shooting

Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection

“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera.

“I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’”

The footage paints a more complete picture of the anger and frustration on July 13 moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire eight shots at the former president from an AR-style assault rifle. A spectator was killed, two others were injured, and Trump suffered a bullet wound to the ear. The Journal obtained the videos under a public-records request Thursday.A police officer in one of the videos at one point refers to a suspicious individual who had been lost by authorities. The unidentified officer referred to “a gentleman with a flat face that we were looking for earlier. He was creeping people out.” The officer’s account, broadcast over radio, was captured on one of the body cameras. “He was watching people out in the woods by the water tower.

I’m not sure he is the gentleman down or not.”