07-15-2024, 09:50 PM
Something about the whole incident seems just a bit off.
We know the meticulous planning that goes around the protection of Presidents and ex-Presidents of the USA. Real life is probably more intense than how it’s depicted in Hollywood
The folks in charge of securing this event were no Denzel Washington or Clint Eastwood.
There are a number of questions, some have been asked, some may already have been answered.
Most of these are questions of incompetence.
The young fellow who did the shooting was no trained assassin. How the Fck did he get on an open roof with a rifle 100m from the ex-President?
Why wasn’t that roof posted?
Why weren’t all the roofs within a couple of hundred metres posted because that would have given line of sight to many other points of the area? There was certainly no shortage of police and security personnel.
Many of the crowd have said they saw the gunmen and tried to alert authorities, they said some of those seemed to have little interest in following that up…but we don’t know?
Was the deputy who confronted the gunman on the roof and then backed off, sent up there as a response to those concerns from the crowd?
How long from that confrontation until the first shots were fired. You would think that the gunman, having been discovered would have started shooting straight away. The deputy on the roof would have dropped back to the ground and radioed to a’ central command’ that there was a “gunman on the roof, shut it down.”
Was there a central command?
All of these questions will no doubt form the basis of an assessment and there is probably a failure at several points.
There’s one question I find rather hard to explain and it may just be a matter of timing.
The sniper group on the roof seemed to be looking directly in the direction of the gunmen. How long was that group in place before the shooting and why that direction? What were they watching, the birds? Could they not see him. A gunman with a rifle!... Or were they also sent up in response to the crowd concerns? They must have set up quickly if that’s the case. There was very little time before the gunman started shooting and him being, in turn, shot.
No doubt all these will be answered in a follow-up assessment. There is no shortage of evidence. Most of the crowd were probably making a record of the day on their phones. If mobile phones had been around in the Kennedy days, they might have got some interesting shots.
We know the meticulous planning that goes around the protection of Presidents and ex-Presidents of the USA. Real life is probably more intense than how it’s depicted in Hollywood
The folks in charge of securing this event were no Denzel Washington or Clint Eastwood.
There are a number of questions, some have been asked, some may already have been answered.
Most of these are questions of incompetence.
The young fellow who did the shooting was no trained assassin. How the Fck did he get on an open roof with a rifle 100m from the ex-President?
Why wasn’t that roof posted?
Why weren’t all the roofs within a couple of hundred metres posted because that would have given line of sight to many other points of the area? There was certainly no shortage of police and security personnel.
Many of the crowd have said they saw the gunmen and tried to alert authorities, they said some of those seemed to have little interest in following that up…but we don’t know?
Was the deputy who confronted the gunman on the roof and then backed off, sent up there as a response to those concerns from the crowd?
How long from that confrontation until the first shots were fired. You would think that the gunman, having been discovered would have started shooting straight away. The deputy on the roof would have dropped back to the ground and radioed to a’ central command’ that there was a “gunman on the roof, shut it down.”
Was there a central command?
All of these questions will no doubt form the basis of an assessment and there is probably a failure at several points.
There’s one question I find rather hard to explain and it may just be a matter of timing.
The sniper group on the roof seemed to be looking directly in the direction of the gunmen. How long was that group in place before the shooting and why that direction? What were they watching, the birds? Could they not see him. A gunman with a rifle!... Or were they also sent up in response to the crowd concerns? They must have set up quickly if that’s the case. There was very little time before the gunman started shooting and him being, in turn, shot.
No doubt all these will be answered in a follow-up assessment. There is no shortage of evidence. Most of the crowd were probably making a record of the day on their phones. If mobile phones had been around in the Kennedy days, they might have got some interesting shots.