Christopher Wray said at the hearing today that eight cartridges were found on the roof. He had been asked if Thomas Crooks fired eight times, which is the number of shots the Butler Police Commissioner said were fired by the attempted assassin. Wray had also said Crooks googled the distances of the shooting in the […] The post 20-Year-Old Creep Crooks Fooled the FBI, Police, Secret Service appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The FBI believes the gunman who opened fire on former President Donald Trump‘s rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month flew a drone near the venue for about 11 minutes in the hours before the shooting, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the House on Wednesday. In an exchange with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Wray said investigators “recovered” a drone that the shooter, identified as a 20-year-old man named Thomas Matthew Crooks, “appears to have used.” FBI Director Wray describes the drone and explosive devices recovered from Thomas Matthew Crooks following the assassination attempt against former President Trump. pic.twitter.com/jNCXSXxPAI — CSPAN (@cspan) July 24, 2024 The drone was recovered in Crooks’ vehicle, where it and the controller were located at the time of the shooting, Wray said, who noted the drone is being “exploited and analyzed by the FBI lab.” Wray said “it appears” that around 3:50 p.m. on the day of the shooting, Crooks was flying the drone “around the area,” which he explained was “about 200 yards, give or take, away” from the stage. The FBI director said investigators “think, but we do not know” that Crooks was “live-streaming — you know, viewing the footage … for about 11 minutes.” Later in the hearing, Wray explained how there were no recordings or photos on the drone from the day of the rally, but the FBI has been able to recreate the flight pattern. He said experts believe that Crooks was using the drone to view the area with a live stream. Roughly two hours after the drone is believed to have taken flight on July 13, Crooks began shooting with a rifle from the rooftop of a building roughly 150 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking to supporters. A Secret Service sniper shot and killed the gunman while other personnel rushed to protect Trump and escort him off the stage, but not before a bullet ripped through the former president’s ear. One rallygoer was killed, and two others were injured. Wray told Jordan the FBI recovered three explosive devices, two from Crooks’ vehicle and one from his residence. The devices were “relatively crude” but did have the capability to be “detonated remotely,” Wray added. Receivers for two of the explosive devices were found with the devices themselves, Wray said. He added that Crooks had a “transmitter” with him when law enforcement killed him. Wray said the devices were also being reviewed by the FBI’s lab and noted how “at the moment” it appears to investigators that because of the “on-off position on the receivers,” if Crooks “had tried to detonate those devices from the roof, it would not have worked.” Wray said the FBI “finally” got into Crooks’ phone in an effort to determine his motives and state of mind. He said Crooks had been using “some encrypted messaging applications.” During another exchange, this one with Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), Wray said investigators recovered “eight cartridges” on the roof of the building where Crooks opened fire. Asked why Crooks was able to get off eight shots, Wray responded, “Well, that I think is something we’re still digging into.” Under questioning from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Wray testified that a laptop linked to Crooks revealed a Google search related to Lee Harvey Oswald and the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In particular, Wray said, Crooks queried “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” on July 6, which appears to be the same day the shooter registered for Trump’s rally.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ policies as a California prosecutor once resulted in the arrest and public perp walk of a mother whose child suffered from sickle cell anemia. On April 18, 2013, two police officers entered a townhouse in Buena Park, California, and arrested 33-year-old Cheree Peoples and walked her to a squad car while she was wearing her pajamas. Outside the home, numerous media photographers were set up to capture the event, snapping photos of the mother during what is known as a “perp walk,” HuffPost reported in 2019. “You would swear I had killed somebody,” Peoples said in an interview with the outlet. Peoples’ crime? Her 11-year-old daughter Shayla had missed 20 days of school due to sickle cell anemia, a condition that puts her in constant pain and requires regular hospitalization. Peoples was the victim of California’s campaign against truancy – a cause Harris championed as the San Francisco district attorney. Harris had pushed for state legislation that would make it easier for police to hold parents accountable for children missing school in an attempt to reduce truancy. California already had laws against truancy, but Harris’ “innovation was to build a really standardized way for local district attorneys to get involved in pressuring parents to make sure their kids go to school,” Huffpost writer Molly Redden told NPR in 2020. The law Harris pushed for was passed in 2011 and allowed district attorneys to charge parents with a misdemeanor if their kids missed at least 10% of the school year without a valid reason, NPR reported. Under the new law, parents of truant children could face a fine of $2,500 or up to one year in jail. Harris pushed for the law as part of her campaign for California’s Attorney General, and it was passed shortly after she won the election. “We are putting parents on notice,” Harris said during her inauguration. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law.” While Harris wasn’t directly responsible for Peoples’ arrest, her campaign against truancy inspired district attorneys around the state to act, including in Orange County, where Peoples was arrested. Peoples’ daughter had a valid reason for missing school but she was still arrested. Shayla’s school was aware of her diagnosis and medical issues and even had records from the regional children’s hospital specifically saying her condition would mean she would have absences and require special accommodations. As HuffPost reported, Peoples worked with the school to make some of these accommodations. When she was arrested, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said in a press release that Peoples’ daughter had “accumulated 20 unexcused absences” and that the school principal had referred her to the DA’s office for allegedly lacking interest in solving the problem. The DA said the school had been sending letters to Peoples about the unexcused absences and requested to meet with her and for doctors’ notes for any further absences. The DA also said that Peoples “was offered counseling and parenting classes.” “The student was provided the opportunity for a mentor through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County, a mentor at school, monthly meetings with law enforcement officers, a case manager, and a number of incentives to encourage regular school attendance,” the DA’s office said. “The defendant is accused of failing to utilize any of the resources made available to her and her student.” Peoples told HuffPost that she read these allegations days after her arrest and said she had been arguing with the school to get it to agree to additional accommodations for her daughter. “This is a young woman who spends a lot of her life in the hospital,” Peoples told the outlet. “How is it that she’s giving off the impression of being a gang member? … Why are they coming after me?” Shayla is still battling her diagnosis, which she will have for life, and still needs frequent hospitalizations.

Elon Musk will attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress Wednesday afternoon as a guest of the prime minister. ELON MUSK says he is attending today’s joint meeting of Congress as a guest on Prime Netanyahu’s pic.twitter.com/SBRm6GDNLC — Kelly Phares (@kellyfphares) July 24, 2024 Last year, Musk and Netayahu visited Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz where civilians were massacred and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7. “It was jarring to see the scene of the massacres as well as to see the short film afterwards that showed more of innocent people getting killed,” Musk said in an X Space with Netanyahu after the visit.  “It was troubling in that movie, especially to see the joy experienced by people that were killing innocent civilians, including kids and babies and defenseless people essentially,” Musk added. “It’s one thing if, obviously, if civilians die, accidentally, but it’s another thing to revel in the joy of killing civilians. That’s evil.” Netanyahu’s speech, which is set for 2:00 p.m. EST, is part of the prime minister’s effort to gain bipartisan support in his war against Hamas and effort to combat Iranian aggression. Fifty lawmakers, mostly Democrats, will be boycotting the speech. Musk announced that he deployed Starlink to a Gazan hospital on Tuesday with the support of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

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