The shooter was on a roof
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Ack@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t get it, I assume it has something to do with the Trump assassination attempt. Did the secret service not look up a slope or something?
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year 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…
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year 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.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
That is an unfortunate abbreviation for Secret Service…
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just wait, in a few months, they are going to become far more similar
elvith@feddit.org 1 year ago
…foreshadowing?
FireTower@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year 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.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Please for the love of whatever, USSS.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
ACASS
Ack@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Wow. That’s… I don’t even know. Funny? Sad? Ridiculous? Maybe all of the above.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
evidences@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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?
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Falling off a roof is a very real danger, to be fair to the US-SS.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 year 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.