Embattled U.S. Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle said Tuesday that the reason there were no agents stationed on top of the building the gunman used to carry out his assassination attempt on Donald Trump is because the building’s slightly sloped roof was deemed unsafe for agents to navigate.
In an interview with ABC News Tuesday, Cheatle explained why the building, only 150 yards away from where Trump spoke, was a no-go zone for law enforcement, Saturday.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she said. “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
The Getty Images in the photo above shows two FBI agents standing effortlessly on top of the building, Sunday. more
issue carpenter levels as standard equipment to preclude any harm
…and the cops inside the building were totes OK with the dude who banged the 20′ ladder up on the side of it, uhhh huhhh, sure, whatevs…
Secret Service Defeated by Chain Link Fence During Trump Shooting
https://youtu.be/C4-q8vvATm4?si=pJ2p_-eNqWDxMfg3
…the shooter could have been quickly stopped if someone in the crowd found an ATF agent and told him there was a dog on the roof…
Safety Issue???
Hand me the phone, I’m calling Bullshit!!
These guys act as human shields to take a bullet for the President, but a slightly sloped roof is a safety concern?
Horse hockey!
Ti’s just keeps getting uglier as more and more comes out!
Could the SS be trying to stop President Trump’s from having rallies anywhere? It’s just too dangerous to protect him because buildings have sloped roofs.
Trump, not Trump’s.
She is put there to shortstop any investigation before it implicates Mayorkas. He is the linchpin between those who conceived and planned this and the ones on the team tasked with the implementation. The fact that she was a DEI hire was part of the scheme. They reasoned that the MAGA who have been rightly critical of DEI would focus on her. She had no business in the position, but she wasn’t in on it. She was an insurance policy in case the whole shiterie went sideways.
Oh, and she is saying what she is being told to say.
The slight slope of the roof in the building in question actually provided some cover for the shooter. One would think that someone in the Secret Service or law enforcement would look at that building and think “hey, that roof, only 150 yards away, could be a potential trouble spot.” The building itself was just high enough to provide an avenue of fire. And if law enforcement was actually terrified of any sort of heights, maybe they could have secured the outside of the building as well as the inside.
Then look at the buildings where the counter-snipers were situated – they appear to have a more severe slope. So counter-snipers had no problem with sloped roofs, but other Secret Service agents did.
I don’t like heights, but I have hung Christmas lights on my house with bigger slopes than the sniper’s building. It doesn’t take a genius or even anyone with law enforcement training to figure out that roof tops and buildings that close should be secured.
@ Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY 2024, 10:26 AT 10:26 AM
“One would think that someone in the Secret Service or law enforcement would look at that building and think “hey, that roof, only 150 yards away, could be a potential trouble spot.””
They were more likely thinking: hey, that roof, only 150 yards away, could come in handy.
WHY WAS NOBODY ON THE WATER TOWER!!!!!
A perfect vantage point for observing the entire area. Including a catwalk completely surrounding the tank.
Water towers are wet, duh
maybe safety bars, like those for old-people bath tubs?
The Babylon Bee has a twofer today beginning with, Secret Service director assures nation she was not trying to get Trump killed, she’s just extremely incompetent and Oh no! Piece of ear shot off Trump begins to grow into second Trump.
I had no idea a sloped roof, no moat with critters, around the perimeter my house would keep the police baffled. How would criminals handle it?? duh
Here is a cow handling a sloped roof, for your edification:
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1813575130565542036
The roof had no more than a 3/12 pitch very walkable after you get to a 6/12 pitch it is time to rope up. Our house has a 12/12 45 degrees and I can get to the top going up the valley.
Just another bunch of BS from these clowns
So law enforcement secret service weren’t allowed to shoot until the shooter put off some rounds? In what world does that even make sense?
Somebody needs to do some explaining on this to start with.
“So law enforcement secret service weren’t allowed to shoot until the shooter put off some rounds?“
AJ, I’m going to be charitable and pretend that the SS snipers and local LEOs at first assumed that the shooter was on the roof because he was part of the security detail, and of course they’d have somebody on that roof.
It probably took the security clusterf—k a minute to figure out Crooks was a hostile who was right where they should have been. You know the saying:: “When seconds matter, cops are there in minutes.”
Thirdtween
I was just speaking as it was matter of policy is what I thought they were saying?
Besides all that wouldn’t there be some kind of briefing as to where your teammates were
AJ, I was half-sarcastically spitballing with that.
“…wouldn’t there be some kind of briefing as to where your teammates were…”
Up until recently, I have assumed that to be the case. Not so much anymore. Slackness, corruption incompetence and politics have infested the SS just like every other federal outfit.
And with the DHS takeover of the SS, it wouldn’t surprise me if there are some former TSA clowns in the SS mix now. Probably a lot more af hoc decisions and chaotic SS deployments than there used to be yhirty or forty years ago.
Certain favored pols get all the best coverage, and plenty of it, while others get the leftovers, noobs and unpopular agents, and not enough of them to do turnkey security, even if they do it right. The local LEOs should just be augmentation, not gap-fillers.
What would be good is to see SS Director Cheatle (what a name to be saddled with) walk on that roof in stiletto high heels next January after an ice storm covers it with a half inch of ice.
Then she can tell us how dangerous it is.