Butler, Pennsylvania, Township manager Thomas Knights gives Fox News Digital insight into how police responded to reports of a suspicious person at the Saturday Trump rally.
The Butler Township manager, Thomas Knights, defended local police officers' response to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally on Saturday. Knights' comments come amid some sparring between the U.S.
There are ongoing interviews with all law enforcement that were at the event, regardless of what their roles were. So we're all just waiting on that information to be put together into one public report,' he explained. The assassination attempt left 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer firefighter, dead after he was shot while protecting his wife and daughters from gunfire.
The FBI has been interviewing members of local law enforcement agencies since the Saturday shooting. Knights described the interview process as 'fact-finding' that will be conducted throughout this week and possibly beyond. Knights also gave further insight into the moments officers realized there was a suspicious person on the rooftop and how they responded before shots rang out around 6:11 p.m.
Once the suspicious individual report came out, and our police arrived in the immediate area of the building, they did do a perimeter search — were unable to see the person on top of the building from the vantage point,' Knights explained. 'So one of our other police officers … literally boosted one of our up high enough in the air to grab hold of the edge of the roof.
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