Butler town manager Tom Knights described the moment a Pennsylvania police officer locked eyes with the Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Trump.
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — In the days since a gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump, a township in rural Pennsylvania has received a barrage of hate mail and angry phone calls blaming its officers for failing to keep the former president safe. Now Butler Township Manager Tom Knights is pushing back. “They couldn’t be more wrong,” he said in an interview Tuesday. For more on this story, watch NBC’s “Nightly News with Lester Holt” tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.
“One of the officers actually boosted the second officer up high enough for him to grab hold of the roof.” “When he was able to pull his head up over the roof, he did in fact see an individual on the roof with a weapon,” Knights said. The gunman pointed his rifle at the officer, who was hanging on the edge of the roof. The officer ducked his head, lost his grip and fell about 8 feet to the ground, Knights said.
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