A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources.
Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said.
Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle, grazing Trump in the ear, killing one Trump supporter and wounding two others.
The revelation comes as local outlet WPXI reported the Crooks was spotted on the building 26 minutes before he opened fire — with one cop from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit even taking a photo of the gunman before the shooting.
Law enforcement sources said it was not clear as of Monday night whether any of the local officers — who were tasked with securing the perimeter outside the Butler County Farm Show grounds — were able to warn Secret Service agents about the gunman.
An officer from the Butler Township Police climbed on a fellow officer’s shoulders to check out the roof of the building moments before the shooting — but backed away after Crooks pointed his rifle at him.
A Butler City police dispatcher told The Post that the Pennsylvania State Police were charged with securing the AGR grounds.
The state police did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.
A variety of local police agencies were tasked with securing the area outside of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump spoke — with the Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi pointing out that local agencies were responsible for the area where the shooter opened fire.
Law enforcement sources said the building was swept by cops before the event and that the local sniper team used the large manufacturing site as a staging and lookout post — but did not climb on the roof for the event — possibly over concerns that it would interfere with the Secret Service snipers.
Neighbors next to the farm show grounds previously told The Post they were never contacted by law enforcement to set up security in days preceding the event, and photos from the area showed gates into the facility where the shooter sneaked in merely zip-tied shut.
“Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, whose property abuts both the farm grounds and the AGR factory.
The state police previously said even though they are regularly called in to assist when politicians come to town, the Secret Service is ultimately in charge.
“Secret Service always has the lead on securing something like this,” State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens told reporters.
Footage from the rally appeared to show the Secret Service counter-sniper team who shot Crooks dead training their rifles on him well before he fired at the former president, though it is unclear if they had seen him.
Neither the Butler Township Police, Pennsylvania State Police, nor the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit responded to request for comment on Monday.
The Butler City Police said the AGR grounds were not under their jurisdiction.
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The Hiller-Perlstein nightmare known as Camp Malka is not over. (This is specific to this subsidiary of Hiller and/or Perlstein nightmares inflicted on different groups of victims). The remaining girls not rescued by their parents were shuttled before Shabbos to far out Chambersburg, PA, next to Hagerstown, Maryland. They got there at 2 am to have to sleep on benkelach and there was another luggage fiasco. Meanwhile, the Hiller-Perlstein mafia keeps getting frumma internet forums locked down where they have influence if anything unflattering is written about them. That, combined with all the drama with their goons hurling insults & threats of onshim at you.
The far out Chambersburg property was bought at auction.
That means it's "as is" & the buildings could have serious defects that the new occupiers would learn of the hard way.
https://www.williamsauction.com/property-plus/scotland-campus-pa-july-2023-363344
"The Scotland Campus at 3583 Scotland Rd was created after the Civil War as a school for orphans whose fathers were lost as a result of the war."
https://tristatealert.com/the-story-of-scotland-campus-gets-even-worse/
(Right before it was sold)
While there have been rumblings for a while now about financial issues for employees at the Scotland School for Veterans Children, news from a search warrant has discovered unhealthy and unsafe conditions in the school.
The PA Municipal Code Alliance (PMCA) investigated the campus and a number of violations were discovered.
Attorney Clint Barkdoll said, “This is a bad situation and according to this reporting, the back story goes back clear to 2016 when Pennsylvania Municipal Code Alliance, they received a complaint from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services about the condition of that campus. These would be building code type violations, unsafe conditions at the facility itself.”
Apparently from 2016 forward, there have been ongoing investigations that found problems dealing with health and safety.
Barkdoll said, “It sounds like some of the conditions in the dorm rooms were just terribly, completely unsanitary and that lead to this recent search warrant.
https://office73019.wixsite.com/kibbutz/general-1
Mesivta bochurim are arriving on Aug 7th
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