Overwatch Failure at Trump Rally Explained

Watching the House Homeland Security Committee meeting today discussing the Trump Rally Shooting failure there was discussion about overwatch of the rooftop from which the shooter shot at President Trump. Although nobody gave an actual narration of what happened that day, here's what I took from the meeting.

There was indeed "overwatch" in the technical meaning of that word of the roof the shooter used. Video taken yesterday when that committee visited the site looks out the second story window that my previous posts discussed and indeed that window, which was open for yesterday's video gives a complete view of the roof. Had there been anybody looking out that window while Crooks crawled up the roof and took his shots, they would have been able to see him from close range and shoot him.

According to testimony given by Colonel Christopher L. Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police:

The team assigned to that overwatch was a local SWAT team.

Twice that team were pulled out of the room, once to join the effort to spot Crooks on the grounds around the building and another time to move to windows on the opposite side of the building.

The revelations seemed to have already been known to committee members and was not detailed or thorough in any way during this testimony but to my knowledge this is the first time this information has been made public.

EXAMINING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF JULY 13TH

Or here on YouTube:

Examining the Assassination Attempt of July 13

The meeting begins around the 1:21:30 mark in the video. (That's an hour and twenty-one minutes.)

At 2:59:10 it is revealed why the team was inside the building, not on the roof. The building was air conditioned.

At 3:35:50 a discussion begins between a former sniper and the state police commissioner with video taken from one of the open second-story windows concerning how easily a SWAT sniper could have taken out Crooks, discusses public suspicion, and ends with insight into rhetoric by Democrats that encourage the assassination of Trump. The video itself is enlightening.

At 3:42:10 two pictures are presented from another of the windows om the second story of that same side of the two-story building. This window also clearly overlooks the roof where the shooter fired at Trump, where "overwatch" of the roof could have taken place.