Trump shooting: Local police testify they identified Crooks as suspicious person to Secret Service

The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump, which included Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris and Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) National President Patrick Yoes acting as witnesses. Col. Paris testified that when the shooter Thomas Crooks was first identified as a suspicious person “the PSP member received that information and verbally turned around and gave it to the Secret Service, our (PSP) member was provided a number to which the picture that had been taken by the ESU (Butler Emergency Services Unit) members — that was on that group thread — to which that should be sent. Our member did that, and to our understanding that was some element of the Secret Service.“ When asked about the incident that involved an officer being hoisted up to see who was on the roof of the building before Crooks pointed his rifle at the officer who quickly retreated, Col. Paris testifie