A former Secret Service agent highlighted the importance of communication across law enforcement teams at the Trump shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Poor communication between local and federal law enforcement contributed to the mounting security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump, experts say. Nearly 90 minutes after law enforcement spotted the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old managed to evade law enforcement and climb onto a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the former president.
Marino said that the acts of courage that the agents revealed during the immediate aftermath of the shooting reveal why the Secret Service is 'worth fixing.' 'While the incident in Butler is one of the worst-case scenarios for the agency, the best of the Secret Service was called upon to serve as the last line of defense in response to failures in the advance process,' he said.
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