New bodycam footage of Trump assassination attempt

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Bodycam footage has been released by the Butler Township Police Department that shows the chaotic minutes in the run up to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Two officers tried, and failed, to stop Thomas Crooks firing several shots from his suspiciously good sniping spot, one of which grazed Trump’s ear, one which killed firefighter and rally attendee Corey Comperatore, and several others that injured two other crowd members.

One piece of footage shows POV of the now infamous officer who saw Crooks before the shooting but was unable to stop him. Two officers attempted to inspect the roof without access to Crooks’ ladder, with one officer eventually poking his head above the roofline only to be met with Crooks pointing his AR-15 directly at him. He fell over two meters directly onto his ankle, incapacitating him. A second piece of footage shows the direct aftermath of the shooting, as law enforcement stormed the dangerously sloped roof to find a bullet-riddled Crooks, and, to their complete bewilderment, absolutely no security whatsoever.

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