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The New York Post shared multiple accounts of individuals saying that they saw would-be assassin Crooks, crawling on the roof in the minutes leading up to taking aim. In a BBC interview uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, one of these witnesses said that Crooks was visible for several minutes. He added that several attendees were pointing at Crooks and trying to get the attention of the Secret Service. “They [the Secret Service] were looking at us the whole time we were standing over by that tree,” he said, but admits that Crooks was probably “behind where they could see” because of the slope of the roof where he was laying down. Also on X , another witness describes seeing Crooks “on top of one of the buildings go in between one building to the next.” He noted law enforcement was made aware.
While human error is a possibility, it does comes off as negligent that members of the crowd report seeing Crooks in the open leading up to him firing shots while Secret Service and local police couldn’t. As a result, X owner Elon Musk spoke up on the platform saying, “The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign.”
