Trump was hit in the ear but avoided serious injury.

Washington: In the chaos that followed the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer that he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building must be the one where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire. Safe

“I (expletive) told them they needed to post the kids here,” the officer said in police body camera footage released by the Butler Township Police Department. “I told them that on Tuesday.

When another officer asked who he told this to, he replied: “Secret Service.”

Police body camera video, released in response to a public records request, shows frustration among local law enforcement over how Thomas Matthew Crooks — who police had flagged as a suspect before the shooting — moved away from the scene, scaled the roof and opened fire. The former president and Republican presidential candidate with an AR-style rifle. They also show the police expressing confusion and anger as to why law enforcement has not been deployed in Dhaba.

“I didn't even care because I thought someone was on the roof,” says one officer. He asked how if law enforcement had been on top of the building, they would have lost “hell” seeing Crocs acting suspiciously. Another officer replied: “They were inside.”

Trump was hit in the ear but avoided serious injury. One spectator was killed and two others were injured.

Multiple investigations are underway into the security lapses that led to the shooting. Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Roe Jr., who took over after the resignation of former chief Kimberly Cheatle, said he “can't defend why that roof wasn't more secure.” The Secret Service controls the area after people pass through metal detectors, while local law enforcement is expected to handle the perimeter. Rowe told lawmakers last month that the Secret Service assumed “states and localities covered it.”

A Secret Service spokeswoman said Friday that the agency is reviewing the body camera footage.

“The US Secret Service appreciates our local law enforcement partners, who worked courageously that day to locate the shooter,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in an email. Reviewing and updating policies and procedures to ensure that such tragedies never happen again.

Two officers from the local county sniper team were at the complex of buildings and saw Crocs acting strangely. According to Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger, one of them ran outside to look for Crooks while the other stayed in the building on the second floor. But none of the officers could see the crocs at the top of the neighboring building from their second-floor position, Goldinger said.

Another video shows officers searching for Crocs moments after the shooting. In the video, one officer helps another climb onto the roof to investigate, sees Crooks before falling down and running to his car to grab his gun. There's no audio in the video until the officer returns to his car, grabbing his weapon, so it's unclear what he said after seeing Crooks on the roof. It was not immediately clear if the voice was not recorded or if police had edited the audio.

The acting director of the Secret Service said local law enforcement did not report an armed man on a nearby rooftop to his agency before the shooting.

After the shooting, officers are seen in a video climbing onto the roof, where Crocs lies dead. Standing next to his body, an officer says he was “(expletive) angry” that police “couldn't find him.”

“I hear you bro,” replies the officer. “But for now, I mean, he's alone.”