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Ack@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They apparently decided not to secure the roof that the assassin ended up shooting from because it was sloped and so they were afraid.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idk that saying “they didn’t do their jobs” when they didn’t do their jobs is really throwing them under the bus. SS counts on local law enforcement to do things, it’s just a fact.

    Ignoring that one of their snipers saw him pull out a rangefinder though…

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re the Secret Service, you tell small-town cops to prevent a sniper from shooting Trump, and those small-town cops don’t do that very well, that’s your fault not theirs.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you have an unrealistic expectation of the size and funding of the SS, but they also clearly have unrealistic expectations of the competency of cops (any) so maybe that’s fair anyways.

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    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is an unfortunate abbreviation for Secret Service…

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      • transientpunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just wait, in a few months, they are going to become far more similar

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      • elvith@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        …foreshadowing?

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    • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ignoring that one of their snipers saw him pull out a rangefinder though…

      Well just seeing that probably shouldn’t be enough to use lethal force. At that point he’s effectively just a guy looking through binoculars or a monocular.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then you ought to have someone remove him nonviolently, just to make sure he’s not a threat. Maybe send a cop up there to instruct him to get down?

        Cop is threatened with a gun

        Okay at that point you’d expect a radio call to go out “Person on X roof just threatened a Law Enforcement officer with a gun” which I’d consider license to fire.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’d think the counter-sniper would maybe keep his sights on the guy pulling out sniper equipment.

        Especially when he pulls out a fucking rifle.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please for the love of whatever, USSS.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ACASS

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  • Ack@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. That’s… I don’t even know. Funny? Sad? Ridiculous? Maybe all of the above.

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s an obvious flaw in Secret Service protocol. If there is nothing in protocol that requires securing that roof then it’s gaurenteed that there are many other flaws that can be exploited.

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  • evidences@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.

    Uhh what the hell, the snipers that took the dude out were on a slopped roof behind the stage? Do they have a one slopped roof per venue rule?

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Falling off a roof is a very real danger, to be fair to the US-SS.

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forget the building. I want to know how the shooter even got close with a gun? I would not be shocked that Trump refused to allow metal detectors at the entrances.

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• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shooter was on a roof

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