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‘I told them’: police body-cam reveals warning days before Trump shooting

A group of state police wearing gray uniforms carry a man in the stands
State police assist a person after shots were fired at Donald Trump’s campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July. Photograph: Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Images

In the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured.

“I [bleep] told them they needed to post guys [bleep] over here,” the officer said in police body-camera footage released by the Butler township police department, with expletives bleeped out. “I told them that [bleeped expletive] Tuesday.”

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