Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Ted Cruz Directly Accuses Secret Service Of 'Lie' Connected To Trump Assassination Attempt" video.

He was 150 yards away behind the building. Nobody that counted would have heard him. Presumably he used his radio as Ted Cruz said, but apparently nobody has yet asked the FBI if he did. Actually, he should have repeatedly fired his handgun into the roof. The noise might not be heard but probably would, and if so would have triggered the SS agents with Trump to pull him down.
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@xpdnc2u While SS people are apparently trained to prioritize protecting the VIP, if necessary risking their own lives, ordinary police are trained to prioritize their own lives and live on to arrest more crims. If I was a cop and climbed up a ladder to see what's going on and, when I poked my head over the top, saw a villain pointing a scoped sniper-grade rifle straight at me, I would immediately descend pretty rapidly too. I can't protect Trump with a bullet between my eyes. But hopefully I would then immediately make a radio call. He most likely did - that's what cops are trained to do. Trouble is, the SS were not able to hear cop radios - they were on a different net. You are right - that was a disgrace. There is another aspect. I once worked for a 2-way radio company. We supplied the local cops with a "man down" option. This is meant to alert other cops that a lone cop has been brought down in a fight or has been shot. If the radio is horizontal, it automatically sends out a "man down" signal with his GPS location, received on all other cop radios in the area. Cops by nature are really keen to protect their own, and if their own radios get a man-down code they all WILL react. If I was the cop who had the shooter point at me at the Trump rally, I would hold my radio horizontal, and send an alarm faster than I could talk. It would certain produce an immediate dramatic reaction in any cop field control truck/van, which I would assume was deployed for the Trump rally.
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@jovanleon7 Not from 150 yards away, unless the wind was blowing at exactly the right direction and strength to carry his voice. The average human voice isn't that powerful. A neighbour 3 doors away from my house has a Harley Davidson - the sort of bike that just has three feet of pipe for an exhaust system and no mufflers. I only hear it if the wind is blowing from his direction, or he rides it past my house. I guess that cop was not as brave as the SS agents who surrounded Trump.
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@jovanleon7 You have point about location of SS. But I think part of the problem is that the SS were not spread about as they should have been, only the local cops, and they did not have direct radio contact with the SS. Messages had to be verbally relayed and that took too long. You and I both agree that the whole thing was a disgrace though. The shooter should have been intercepted long before.
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