Some of the evidence provided by Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris was contested by Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger.
As law enforcement continued to assign blame for the security breakdown at former President Trump’s event in Pennsylvania, the district attorney for Butler County retaliated against the testimony of the state police commissioner of Pennsylvania.
Richard Goldinger, the district attorney for Butler County, made an effort to elucidate the sequence of events that led up to Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Col. Christopher Paris’ congressional hearing on Wednesday in a news release.
“We were told that Butler [Emergency Services Unit] ESU was responsible for that area, by several Secret Service agents on that walk-through,” Paris said on Tuesday, alluding to the building where Thomas Crooks fired rounds at the former president during a meeting held prior to the shooting.
Paris stated that he understood ESU personnel to have left their station in order to investigate a possible suspicious suspect. He added he did not know if those cops, had they stayed at their posts, might have seen Crooks.
Paris’ statement, according to Goldinger, “misstated” the local law enforcement’s reaction when Crooks was first seen by snipers twenty minutes before the shooting.
