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@Nerde @Lana It looks like the only person who got shot at the #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner was a #SecretService officer shot by a #police officer. It may be the case that all the gunshots were by the police, and every shot either hit a colleague or missed altogether. This is not being adequately discussed.
No wonder #ToddBlanche was being cagey and evasive about ballistics and the investigation.
When he said “When you fire a bullet, the bullet ends up somewhere — sometimes you find it, sometimes you don’t,” what he meant is, “sometimes you find it in a colleague’s vest or body, because the entire law enforcement and security operation under my leadership is grossly incompetent.”
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Reporting:
“Surveillance footage reviewed by The Washington Post shows that Cole Tomas Allen appeared to raise his shotgun in the direction of a Secret Service officer who then fired the only shots that are clearly visible in the video from a security checkpoint outside Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner.”
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“Evan Hill
@evanhill
A Secret Service officer fired four times at Cole Allen, and in the direction of other security personnel, as he charged a security checkpoint, a Post review of surveillance footage has found. There was no indication on the footage that Allen fired his weapon,” -
@wdlindsy This seems even more interesting now -
“Angelo Carusone
@goangelo.bsky.socialFox News interviewing Fox reporter from the event.
Reporter says she was sitting next to Karoline Leavitt's husband.
Says he told her: "You need to be safe and he was very serious when he said that to me. Looked around the room and he said..."
Call abruptly cuts.”
Video in link.
https://bsky.app/profile/goangelo.bsky.social/post/3mkeia3csvk2g
