Chris and all: Thanks for all you’ve been doing toward this citizens’ investigation.
White shorts plain clothes guy (local LEO, “PCLLEO”) sitting there next to the retaining wall and doing nothing while watching the guy on the roof, listening to several in the crowd talking about the guy being on the roof. It seems high time he radio what he knows to the command center so they can take PDJT off the stage until this is resolved. (They’ve done it for far less potential threats.)
But PCLLEO doesn’t seem to engage with cops going south-then-east, either. If from the retaining wall perch wasn’t a sufficiently good shooting angle, he might have climbed onto the a/c units near door 12, or from there, stopping a shooter cold (~45 yards) if going farther onto the roof wasn’t feasible.
(Chris, you were off by a minute for the video containing the second frame above. The roof-hoisted LEO on the other side wouldn’t be there for another minute. But, the shooter has already done his vertical run (apparently across 3 roofs and 2 enclosed walkways)). Crooks’ (?) tromping would have easily been heard (in this pole barn) by all those in the southern AGR building.
If the PCLLEO had alerted his comrades regarding the potential shooter, someone from the space below the tromping shooter could’ve done his hoisted challenge of the shooter nearly a minute before it actually happened with the LEO who had to get out of his car. PCLLEO was in the best position to see Crooks’ (?) weapon. He almost HAD to have seen it, IMHO.
The hoisted LEO, also IMHO, had adequate space below the roof’s gutter (see right image) to protect himself, and possibly adequately and long enough to get a shot off from his sidearm. PCLLEO could’ve helped take Crooks (?) down for that, too, as it would have been only a 50-yard shot. But that’s probably too much Monday-morning-quarterbacking. In any event, the hoisted LEO would have done well to tell his hoister after he fell to the ground, “Back me up, bro!” and discharge his sidearm 5x into the dirt beside the evergreen tree, yelling, “The guy on the roof has a rifle!” PDJT would’ve been taken away from the podium pronto.
Now, back to the PCLLEO. His nonchalant behavior in the right image suggests quite strongly to me that he was responding to a “STAND DOWN ORDER.”
