An officer at the Butler County rally says he warned secret service about the rooftop. Amid the chaos of the assassination attempt, another local cop called his family in the rally urging them to leave.
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Body camera footage from a police officer who responded to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last month in Pennsylvania shows the intra-cop quarrels in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
The video shows the officer with the body camera running through a field toward a building in the area where shots had been fired at Trump. He passes someone holding a Trump flag and keeps running through a parking lot, his gun flashing in the periphery of his camera.
“Is he hit?” he asked another officer standing outside the building.
They replied, “I’m not sure.”
Video footage from body cameras on Butler Township Police Department officers, obtained by The Intercept, shed light on the chaos among law enforcement officials responding to the assassination attempt. The videos confirm previous reporting that a lack of communication and coordination between federal, state, and local police led to confusion at the rally and reflected insufficient preparation. The Butler police, for their part, had not had a chief for a month leading up to the attack.
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Akela Lacy is a Politics Reporter at The Intercept. She was previously The Intercept’s inaugural Ady Barkan Reporting Fellow; prior to that, she was a Politics Fellow in the D.C. Bureau.
