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  • https://archive.ph/2024.07.15-133242/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-shooting-police-butler-pennsylvania/

    When did the gun get to the roof?’ Pennsylvania police ask questions about Trump’s shooter amid FBI investigation

    Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe says that when his officers were notified about a suspicious person at former president Donald Trump’s Saturday rally, there was no mention of any weapon. By the time one of his officers spotted the individual on a rooftop, the man was holding a rifle.

    “When did the gun get to the roof?” Sheriff Slupe asked. “Was it the night before? And I’m not telling you something that I know – I’m asking the question myself.”

    Before Trump’s speech, Sheriff Slupe said the officers received reports of a suspicious person on the grounds. Officers were given a photo of the individual to help their search, he said.

    “The police responded immediately, and when that [report] was sent, there was no mention of a gun,” he said. The sheriff said he is still not clear on the exact chain of events as it is still under investigation, but it’s his understanding that some people at the rally alerted officers to an individual hiding on the roof of a low building not far from the stage.

    From there, his officers went to the building and another officer gave his colleague a boost up to see. The officer gripped the edge of the roof to see if anyone was up there. Sheriff Slupe said it’s crucial to remember the officer was not expecting to see someone with a gun

    “I don’t know if he popped his head up. I don’t know how far he was up. I don’t know any of that, but the shooter apparently saw or heard him and turned toward him. The officer let go and fell to the ground,” the sheriff said. At that point, the shooter took aim and fired at Trump. Within seconds, the shooter was killed by a sniper.

    Sheriff Slupe said he had been sitting just two rows back from the stage where Trump entered. He, like many, thought the loud pops were firecrackers. Earlier in the day, his office had received a noise complaint about someone else setting off fireworks about a kilometre away from the rally.

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  • “THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”