Steve is political but you dont see the subtleties. Example: he doesnt like cops because 99% of his videos with cops are negative. There are others too..
@@luigivincenz3843 99% of his cop videos are negative because positive police interactions are not news worthy There’s no story in “cop respects citizen’s rights and let’s him off with a warning”
When US Senator Rand Paul was attacked a couple of years ago at his home in Kentucky, his attacker was tried in state court and got a very lenient sentence. According to the law you read , it would seem that the attacker should have been tired in Federal court.
The statute applies for attempts made because of their official duties past or future. IIRC, the guy attacked him in a neighbor dispute situation. So it had nothing to do with his job, so the federal statute doesn't apply.
The worst thing anyone can do right now is assume or accept early reports. This will all have to be worked out. Pray for the victims who were hurt and died.
You can hear one of them saying what do we do? A few of them and I don't want to be political I would say approximately three of them looked pretty lost.
I recall the state trying to prosecute FBI agents after Ruby Ridge and the Feds saying Federal issue only the FBI is not accountable to the state's criminal justice system so this could an interesting process to watch.
@@redneckcoder Got proof? Links? Something specific to google by? Or is this a conspiracy theory like how the lizards rule earth from the dark side of the moon, which is fake because the earth is flat, etc craziness.
In my job I occasionally worked in proximity to a US President. Every building within 500 meters, every roof top, every window, every access to the area were physically attended by Secret Service Agents & all persons within that proximity were under intense surveilance from numerous positions, even airborne in helicopters. Nobody possibly gone unnoticed on a rooftop within 500 meters of the President under Secret Service protection. Nobody.
What concerns me most is. How was that young man able to get that close. I lived in Ford City, which is about 25 miles from Butler. And I am quite familiar with the fairgrounds, and I find it inconceivable that there was not better security
The first story I saw on this incident showed an aerial photo of the site, with an arrow pointing to the shooter’s location and another to the stage where Trump was standing. Moving back in time before the incident to the most elementary evaluation of this location, it is inconceivable that a roof with an unobstructed view above the stage would not be at least under constant observation, with access to it denied, and simple prudence dictating that it be occupied by security personnel. The world wonders….
Hasn't anyone at the Secret Service read any of Jack Carr's books?!? That "perimeter" was a small, under protected mess. And the Agents, on the ground, looked like they had never practiced an 'extraction under fire' before. WTH
well when they have to actually be used... only one that looked like they didnt get the memo was the girl and actually tried to get in the way of anything more coming his way
@@Xidification do you really think they have the best of the best of the best watching a former president that keeps rolling through his security because of the trouble he causes with them makes them leave to take another position?
If you think the Secret Service has the staffing and ability to secure every single location and aren't at best able to secure some while observing others when you can then you have a very naïve view on security. Especially given just because they're secret service doesn't mean they're allowed access to all properties in the surrounding area.
@@KuariThunderclaw W Bush came to state police headquarters when I worked there. My section was confined to our office building while he was there and one of the first things they did was secure the roof accesses.
The secret service most certainly did an amazing job. Not amazingly good; not amazingly effective at their stated purpose; not amazingly capable; but certainly amazing. I was amazed at how thoroughly they inspired doubts and conspiracy theories about their principles and their allegiance to their principal.
The gunman was sighted and reported to local police several minutes before the first shot.. appalling.. I would suspect that every cop has a radio and the word 'gun' probably takes 1 second to say at most..
Fed also investigated Trump and was weaponized against him. Trumps SS detail was cut 50% by Biden. SS chief for months has been begging for the required manpower to properly secure Trump. on a side not at Biden's last convention Biden stated ".... it is time to put Trump in the crosshairs.." and now some one did.
Trump has four / pretty soon 5 adult children and a wife and they've all got SS detail. Add on top he goes to political rallies with hundreds of people in every podunk open-air fairgrounds every damn week. Likely he's stretched his detail further and thinner than any other ex-president in history.
@@nunyabidness674Military qual ranges are 50-300 meters. 150 is pretty darn easy with iron sights. Wind at that distance doesn't do a whole lot either. It could drift a round, maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch with 10 mph.
I recall there was a dispute between the city of Dallas and the FBI about who had jurisdiction to investigate and perform the autopsy on President John F. Kennedy in 1963
@@CheZfrmdaWestWisc Yes. Had Oswald not been killed himself, he would have been tried in a Texas court for murder. There was no federal law against assassinating the president at the time.
Well done video Steve. We do need people that are influencing our nation to act calmly, rationally, with forethought, and encourage civility at this time.
If I had to guess, because the mechanisms which cause those two outcomes are distinct in useful ways for normal cases, and in the extremes, there's no functional difference between those outcomes, so there's no need to worry about the weird/pointless distinction.
After seeing how open the venue was there’s no excuse for those buildings not being covered by Secret Service. It appears that they deliberately turned a blind eye on the situation.
Often, a place like those rooftops would be watched by the State Police. The Secret Service is the lead agency for the protection of a POTUS candidate and events but local agencies would coordinate and provide manpower.
Candidates and former presidents have way fewer agents assigned to them than presidents. It may be that the local police had to be in charge of covering some parts of security, due to manpower. I don't know. Do you actually know either though? Clearly someone dropped the ball, but it's not clear if it's the SS
@@gadget58 No different than any other republicans. No one does their job, including the Supreme Court. Why should the Secret Service work for their pay.
Conspiracy theorist are still trying to figure out JFK. The rest of us know what happened. By the way, people make their living pushing JFK conspiracy theories.
@@kathleenmccrory9883 Yes and no. The government has "figured it out". That said, those records are sealed till everyone who was alive at the time, even if just born, has passed.
Now I see why. I even noticed Steve avoiding saying Mr Trump’s name. He did say it a minimal number of times. Steve even went on to say “the candidate”.
Become? Things weren't better in the judicial system in the past. You just didn't know about the level of abuse and corruption do to the lack of camera's everywhere.
@@CeanStrauss I’ve lived thru and personally experienced corruption by law enforcement. Nobody had a camera capturing the abuse . Thousands if not millions of people have been abused by people of so called authority . I never seen so much of this political bs as they have treated Former President Trump.
A few years ago when the attempt was made on Gabrielle Giffords, Loughner was only charged with the federal charges and not with the state crimes. The Pima County prosecutor spoke with the families and they decided to not charge him with the civilian deaths since there is no statute of limitations for in Arizona for Murder. The idea was if something went wrong with the federal prosecution and he was going to walk Pima county could always bring back the state charges.
Retired Federal Agent here. Your video is a good summary of Federal Law and the issue of jurisdiction. Generally, murders, assaults, etc. are prosecuted by the state unless as you point out specifically addressed as a Federal Crime. The statue states that its a crime such as when it involves a current or former government employee, family member, or witness, or that it becomes a Federal crime if the murder, assault, threat is in furtherance of another crime which is prosecutable by the Federal Government (such as a drug deal or terrorism), or if the crime is committed on Federal land, i.e. an Indian Reservation, a National Park, or a Federal Facility, or if the Federal Government has sole jurisdiction such as on an Airplane, Ship, or in international waters, or to an American Citizen, resident, or national in a foreign country, where there are other jurisdictional issues.. In many cases there are duel/overlapping jurisdictions, in these cases the Federal Governments jurisdiction takes precedence over the State or Local jurisdiction. However, some times the Federal government will decline to prosecute, or cede prosecution to a local jurisdiction for various reasons, and this happens quite a bit. The other victims of the rally could be seen as falling under Federal law do to the nature of the originating crime, and assassination attempt of a former President, or for a variety of other reasons, but the state can still investigate and even charge people if, the Federal government cedes jurisdiction, or the state has a law that was violated that the Federal government does not have. State law is different than Federal Law, even when very similar, in many way and may have additional crimes or thresholds for crimes, penalties, and even privilege and subpoena powers.
This investigation definitely needs to be done by an independent impartial 3rd party and needs full transparency to the public. No more bullshit classification and hiding information from citizens.
Agreed, but thats as likely to happen as politicians voting to restrict their own power. I think we all know why this happened, and why it was allowed to happen.
It doesn't matter who investigates it or how transparent the investigation is, Trumpists will believe anything their leader says. So if Trump blames Biden they will believe Biden ordered it. It has been nearly 4 years and about 30% of Americans still believe the election was stolen, because Trump keeps insisting it was stolen, with no proof.
@rdizzy1 The double-edged sword of that Official Act ruling. (Not that I believe Joe ordered it, but I do so enjoy bringing this up when certain people are floating "Biden ordered it!" theories.)
@@rdizzy1 No I meant that the Director of CIA is specifically mentioned in the statute separately from all other heads of executive agencies. It's strange.
@@rdizzy1that's not the mo. If the CIA wanted to commit a domestic assassination they'd likely solicit MI5, Mossad or a similar such organization. And those organizations would likely contract organized crime.
@mrtechie6810 black roof would provide better concealment, that's the point. Less concealment means he definitely should have easily been spotted by security detail.
Thank you for your timely, contemporaneous update. Many with a platform will say they don't want to comment until "all the facts are in," but there are always existing truths--such as laws--that can certainly be shared today, which is what you are doing. So thank you for not hesitating.
Whoever told you this is not being honest. I'm guessing this is a response to the horribly inaccurate reporting on the immunity ruling... like Sotomayor completely misinterpreting Article 1, Section 3, Clause 7 of the constitution in her dissenting opinion. Either she's unqualified or she knows she's lying; I can't tell which and I don't know which is worse.
@@SomeGuyFromUtah every scotus, pre being so, is queried about roe v wade. every one of them gave roe v wade accolades, and praises. what happened? did they lie then? or now?
@@jerryjerry7561 Roe V. Wade and that whole topic is such an impossible thing to rule on. There's no clear metric to decide it one way or the other. If a pregnant woman is murder, it counts as 2 deaths, but there's also definitely a need for rights regarding your own body and deciding when it's not just your body anymore is more of a moral/religious question than a legal question. I don't think it's completely unreasonable to defer this to the states to decide for themselves.
@@SomeGuyFromUtah clear metric for 50 years genius. what happened? trump? go look up "we dont use American banks, we get all the funding we need out of russia" bought and paid for! republican congress knew!
As I recall, when JFK was killed, the Dallas PD was initially in charge. There being no Federal Statute on assassination at the time. There were some critics of the Dallas PD at the time. The whole Jack Ruby thing. Anyway, I believe the Federal legislation resulted from the JFK assassination events.
I looked it up. The laws Steve is citing go back to the '40s at least. But I didn't look far enough to see what they looked like in 1963 so maybe it was ambiguous.
@@blairhoughton7918 I am working from memory. I was only in Jr. High. But I remember a lot of discussion over jurisdiction. Dallas PD definitely held Oswald in custody of course. He was never in Federal Custody. And I believe there was some controversy over JFK’s body, and who had charge of it. My recollection was that the Secret Service just took it and no one stopped them. Part of the issue may have been FBI authority in the case. FBI Authority was much more narrowly defined at one time. People were skeptical of a federal police force, believing the Constitution left law enforcement to the states. It may have been that the federal law was in place but that the FBI didn’t have jurisdiction over the case. The FBI, like any Federal Agency, has had lots of Mission Creep since then.
I agree, don't get political. I enjoy non-political channels as entertainment because they are non-political. I also enjoy very political channels for the opposite reason. I myself am very in tune with the politics, and stay that way every year, regardless if it's election year or not. That being said, I take breaks from it by watching channels I know wont be speaking about politics, like yours. There are a couple of sailing VLOGS that I no longer follow because they began to inject politics into their content, one to the left and the other to the right. Even though I agree with one of their points of view, I no longer watch either channel because I view their content as an escape, and they've both ruined it for me. I'm glad that you've recognized this, and have kept your channel neutral by not speaking about the politics. Thank you.
I stopped watching "The Legal Eagle" Channel because his politics is injected and clouds his legal analysis in many cases, he is very blatant about it.
Idk, just saying, in many ways I appreciate the apolitical approach to this. It's pretty refreshing, and I'm glad to see a take on an otherwise kinda uncovered aspect of this situation.
@@oklahomahank2378 Yeah, it would be jurisdiction of the country in question (unless, for example, it happened on a US military base or US Consulate within the borders of another country) - but it would be so incredibly politically charged if they then refused full participation of our own investigating agencies (led by FBI I'm sure) it could even have military consequences.
Where it gets weird sometimes is when a state agency takes over from the local authorities. There was a car fire where a child lost his life and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was on it in less than 30 minutes. I don't think the fire department had even arrived on scene yet. My first thought was Meth simply because of their presence and cars normally don't just explode for no reason.
im still confused how the gunman was able to get a gun in. back in 2020 when trump had an event in my hometown, my work just so happened to be a block behind the stadium trump was in, and there were police yelling at me telling me until i moved several streets away. made me late for work that day, still salty about it
He was outside of the fenced in rally, on the other side, near the tree line. He used a ladder to get on the roof of that building. Ss was on a building inside the rally
@@sherrolmohn8686They should have set up a perimeter way bigger than what they had. Maybe they did and somebody just didn't enforce it. Maybe they delegated that to local LE. Whoever chose this site with the infinite sightlines is going to have some splainin to do as well. And if Trump waved off _any_ security provisions that should exonerate all of the protectors.
OK, the Secret Service did their job once the gun fire started, however, how is it the Secret Service didn't prevent a young man with a rifle from getting on the roof of a building only a few hundred yards from a Presidential candidate? This was NOT downtown Dallas, this was a fair grounds, with more grassy, open areas than buildings. I'm NOT saying the Secret Service screwed up, but on the other hand I'm not willing to say the Secret Service did a "great" job in this situation. I'm sure the FBI will do their investigation, and I'm equally sure they will be reluctant to cast disparity upon their fellow Federal employees.
Follow up related question: Jurisdiction on the alleged carjacking/robery attempt (gone pretty wrong) of a sitting Supreme Court Justice's SECURITY DETAIL, since I think they were federal agents. And to be clear, I'm talking about Justice Sotomayor, but I like the way this video kept names out of things (only reason I'm clarifying here is since I'm the one asking the question, not making the video)
It's my understanding and correct me if I'm mistaken it was the aftermath of the tragedy of JFK that there was disagreement on who had jurisdiction to investigate and prosocute. Fifty states equals fifty sets of laws. God bless everyone hurt in these events of the last day.
I watched just enough to understand what happened. The opinions and speculations that follow the event are of no interest. When they release the facts is what matters.
Steve, thank your for your credible reporting. You are the only person whose video I have watched on the topic because I have watched your videos long enough to know that you make every effort to report accurately, to not add in irrelevant misinformation or blatantly misleading speculation, and still add relevant legal information to the event. Even when it is shocking national event whose full details will likely not be known for at least 6 months. Your honesty and integrity is refreshing and is greatly appreciated.
Tough shit. Shouldn't have made presidents de-facto unaccountable under the law through a supreme court ruling. NO ONE should be allowed that much power, ever, and anyone who tries to take it? As I said, tough shit.
How about getting Secret Service protection for candidates who are bonafide as Presidential candidates? Any provisions for their safety or are they left vulnerable? (The independent candidates or other party possible candidates come to mind).
The roof was unprotected (an unlikely, non-random event) and the gunman knew to go to the unprotected roof (an unlikely non-random event). My leg is wet and there ain't a cloud in the sky.
