I’ll tell you what, go find the video the screenshot was taken from and when you do we’ll know why it was in that position. I’ll place my money on it not being to search the tree and pull a sniper kit out of it like the person who shared it with Gary Melton said.
I saw no sniper kit being carried by any of the ESU or Butler Twp officers in the bodycam footage, nor did I see one on the grass near the tree or anywhere else. There is also nothing in that bodycam that suggests they were looking in that tree. They were transporting a ladder and that’s the takeaway. The screenshot was carefully selected as disinformation to suggest they were.
Unless the video is found and shows them in the tree pulling a sniper kit out, that’s my personal conclusion, and I’m sticking with it.