The story changes again I recall that Butler EMS said “the USSS told Butler EMS to put the snipers nest in second-floor windows of the AGR warehouse and remain hidden in a covert stance.”
From the linked New York Times article On Tuesday, the agency’s lead advance agent, Meredith Bank, asked a local SWAT commander whether his team could supply two snipers.
Ed Lenz, the commander of that team — the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, or E.S.U. — said in an interview that Ms. Bank did not explain what the agency wanted these snipers to do or where they should be posted. “There was really no direction,” Mr. Lenz said. Ms. Bank then called back to say the Secret Service would be providing counter-snipers after all, Mr. Lenz said. She offered no explanation for the change, though The Times later confirmed that the additional security measures were in response to heightened concerns about Mr. Trump’s safety. It would be the first time Secret Service counter-snipers were assigned to a former president, Mr. Rowe, said in a news conference in August. After the calls, Mr. Lenz wrote an email to the Butler County district attorney describing the assignment, as he interpreted it. The team’s snipers, Mr. Lenz wrote, would “provide overwatch for the rally and would work in conjunction with the Secret Service counter-sniper unit.”
The local snipers decided for themselves the optimal places from which to watch the crowd inside the fenced-in security zone, Mr. Lenz said. One was from the second-floor windows of one of the AGR warehouses. The snipers’ position did not afford a view of the warehouse roof from which Mr. Crooks would eventually fire his shots.
By July 11, two days before the rally, some state and local agencies recognized that the warehouses could be a problem, as the closest one was outside the security perimeter but less than 500 feet from the stage. During small group walk-throughs of the site, different local partners raised their concerns, but they said the Secret Service gave contradictory answers.
Well, this is an interesting twist. I don’t believe that at all.
Edit: after about a minute, my brain told me why it doesn’t believe it: because of the diagrams that were labeled “from Butler command” that had the guns positioned on the west side of the building.
To me it’s starting to look more like USSS and Butler probably collaborated on where the local ESU snipers should be. Maybe they thought it’d be too suspicious if they didn’t have anyone in that building, so they put some people there but arranged for them to be looking the wrong way.
… arranged for them to be looking the wrong way. or not be there at all
Correct assumption The local snipers decided for themselves the optimal places from which to watch the crowd Well any intelligent un-compromised leading officer would have had;
A) a sniper team on the 2nd story roof
B) a sniper team up on the water tank
C) a drone in the air
Nice work, again. The guy on the left it is. It’s been many years since I lived in a rural area like Western PA, but I have lived in some with part time cops, so it doesn’t surprise me seeing so many part time cops in our searches.
Thank you for finding him. I searched high and low for him, but my online searches seem to be getting worse as time goes on, as in someone seems to be applying special alogrithms to my searches. For example, I can type in the exact title of a YT video, with or without the channel name, and still not have it show up in my search. Talk about frustrating.
“While reacting to Sunday, he [Sen Blumenthal] said a report is coming “very soon” summarizing the findings of an investigation by Congress and the U.S. Senate into the first attempt.”
So I was rewatching the first video of boost up and down and then the first swat group going up in the same place. Knowing you guys, you already found this but this was a shock to me. He was coming out of the alcove where the first swat group was being hoisted on the roof. Even the shirt has design.
What a coincidence, huh? Cat and mouse wearing the same skin on the same day on the same place. That’s cammo-shorts friend, I believe. Their names and units are not yet known, if I remember correctly. CERT or SERT, something like that is mentioned on one of the bodycams.
I got another one for you that I’m pretty sure of.
at 18:15:48 standing beside Matthew Shaffer (screaming “let me see your hands”), he has that night vision thing on his helmet
at 18:16:35 he’s the first to set foot ontop AGR6 roof
This is him on the roof, he acted as he’s the team leader, giving orders to the others. Tyler Collins a few times calls him Mike (ie BWC2-122110 at 18:14:14 / 18:18:06)
He’s in the QRF team with Mike Sulerud so I’m pretty confident it’s him. On the roof Mike adresses him a few times with Kop or Kope (ie BWC2-122110 18:18:54 / 18:21:25).
compare the wedding ring and the watch with the picture above.