• SeaJ
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    1 month ago

    I don’t blame the cop there. He has a gun already on him. Trying to pull his gun would have simply gotten him killed.

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      Yeah, and that wouldn’t have helped the situation. Maybe the snipers would have taken him out after shooting the cop, instead of taking him out after shooting at Trump?

      The real big issue is about how apparently someone reported the guy like 30 minutes prior to the actual shooting, and apparently nobody cared.

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        1 month ago

        Who is saying 30 minutes? I’ve only seen reports saying two or three minutes, I wouldn’t doubt that though.

        EDIT: new info has come out, it’s pretty absurd

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          2-3 minutes on the roof with a gun. He was spotted with a backpack long before that, and he was also spotted using a rangefinder from the ground long before that.

          That’s part of the reason the cop was looking for him in the first place. That’s also why there is a cellphone picture of him on the ground taken before he climbed to the roof, which was taken by an officer that saw him using the rangefinder.