Trump Shooting: Officer Greg Nicol Suspicious Timeline?

Jeff Ostroff Analyzed more of the new police bodycam videos and 2-hour Police Dashcam video M500-010482 released by Butler, PA police, which shows the dashcam view from one of the first police cruisers to arrive at the AGR building before the shooter was spotted and shots rang out. Here questions are raised about Officer Greg Nicol and we trace his movements through this mystery to determine exactly where and when he went to look for the Trump shooter outside the building, and where he was when the shots rang out. Is the Butler PD hiding something, or is there a connect-the-dots explanation for us that tells us why Officer Greg Nicol was seen exiting the building at 16:13:24 PM, just 2 minutes after the shooting? Where was he during the shooting?

[vanillasky]

With all of this evidence, still boils down to, why was Trump on that stage...

[artphotognh]

So 3 LE officers are assigned to the room that overlooks the shooter's perch and one goes home long before Trump goes onstage. Then, just as Trump begins speaking, 1 of the remaining 2 goes outside to look for the guy they've been monitoring for 2 hours - they couldn't request that one of the hundreds of cops on the ground do this??? Next, we're told the room is abandoned entirely (with the sniper rifle pointing at Trump) to let #2 back inside - but #2 had never found Crooks, so why would he want to go back inside? The mind-boggling incompetence makes it hard to definitively identify malice, but it's amazingly CONVENIENT how everything conspired to let the nutcase kid use Trump for target practice.

[taraalamodin]

So, let me see if I understand this: 1) officer Nicols abandoned his counter sniper post overlooking the roof where Crooks would very shortly get into position, take aim and fire in order to go look for Crooks when there were many other officers available to do that; 2) Nicols then created a situation in which the other counter sniper overlooking the roof was required to abandon his post to let Nicols back in the building; and 3) then 2 minutes after the shooting, which Nicols allowed to happen by #1 & 2 above, he strolls out of the building like he hasn't a care in the world and wanders around for a while. WTF? Have I got that right?

[Rabbi_Rabbs]

Time to scrutinize the sworn testimony of Pennsylvania police Col. Christopher Paris. Under oath he told Congress at least 4 questionable things:
(1) two of his snipers were stationed by a 2nd floor window in Bldg 2 overlooking the roof of Bldg 1, but those two snipers abandoned their post to search for a suspicious person walking outside
(2) a cop tried to lift another cop onto the roof, but Crooks pointed a gun at them, causing the cop to fall down and get injured
(3) Paris believes those 2 cops were his 2 snipers from Bldg2
(4) Paris' agency "met or exceeded expectations"
But, regarding (1), your new video shows Nicol, who I assume is one of the two Paris referenced, but if so, where is Nicol's sniper buddy?
Regarding (2), you presented a prior video showing how the cop that fell from the roof immediately ran away. He wasn't injured lying on the ground as Paris implied.
As for (3), your earlier video showed that the cop that fell down wasn't a sniper. He had driven to the scene in his patrol unit.
(4), Anyone that's ever worked in security knows not to leave their post abandoned. Call in for replacements to take over your assignment, or request someone else search for the suspicious person walking around. Paris can't say "met or exceeded expectations" unless his expectations included failure. In addition, the cop that fell to the ground should've fired his gun to warn Secret Service. And of course, none of Paris' Keystone Cops from the Keystone State could open a ladder.

[MrAustin]

Lack of protection wasn't because of lack of manpower

[kleepo]

Somebody please convince me that I'm not actually watching a Benny Hill comedy sketch. A 20-year-old kid managed to outsmart the Secret service and how many police officers again.
🙄😳

[saratemp]

If officer Greg strolled out of the building 'after' the shooting, that means he was in the building 'during' the shooting.

[Cmz]

Why would he physically go downstairs instead of just radioing where he went?!?! Why would the sniper ever leave their position to go on foot to look for a suspect? They had plenty of foot patrol officers. It makes no sense

[richiejones]

Sooo..why wasn't President Trump pulled off the stage when the officer spotted someone on the roof???

[vt]

How can it not be sinister for policemen to see someone on the roof and not notify immediately those protecting Trump to get him off the stage? That, and no roof coverage or surveillance. UNREAL.

[deviantmultimedia]

I'm a pretty easy-going dude but you know what really pisses me off? This is not our job, we just care to know. We've proved on numerous occasions that when the private sector cares enough about something, we will all collaborate our efforts and get it done. Our government can't say the same thing about themselves and this IS their ACTUAL job. We've had an accurate timeline of this event for almost two weeks. We're so familiar with it that we're now picking apart the movements of individual people on the scene. How is it that we have so much familiarity that we can recall the course of events off the top of our heads in detail, yet nobody from our government has any f*cking clue what happened? They've held multiple hearings about this without producing a shred of anything— not even a timeline— and nobody in the room seems to have a single clue about anything on an individual basis either. Has nobody on the committee cared enough to research this on their own time to gain a little perspective? Apparently not. And at these hearings, why is it that the person they have on the stand is always either the wrong person for the questions they're asking or they "weren't briefed on that information"? Why not cut the sh*t! There was a shot-caller for this event and it had to have been a Secret Service agent. Who was it? Get that agent on the stand. We don't give a f*ck about the former head of the Secret Service because she was not there. We give even less f*cks about her replacement. Why the f*ck would we want to hear from him? We also don't give a f*ck about the FBI because they are the federal bureau of INVESTIGATION; they are in the middle of INVESTIGATING. So why ask him questions about tactical things like asset coverage and the distribution of resources etc? Why even have him on the stand? Are they that stupid or do they think we are? There are only two people worth hearing from— the Secret Service agent who called the shots for his team on that day, and the local police officer who called the shots for his team on that day. A fifth-grader would know that the leaders who were there on the scene that day should be the first people to talk to. But our government has questioned literally everybody BESIDES them. I refuse to believe they are THAT stupid; it's just not possible. So they must think the American people are stupid. Okay, maybe a lot of us are, but not to this extent. This is insulting. They think we're complete idiots and that all these hearings are buying them time or something. Who the f*ck knows really? I can only speculate why they'd repeatedly waste everybody's time with all these hearings that go nowhere. Whatever it is, we're not going to forget or lose interest in this. This ain't politics. A good man died, several were injured, and a former president and running candidate was a half an inch away from being murdered on a live broadcast. We're not going to forget or become any less interested than we were the day it happened. No matter how much time goes by we'll never let it be buried. There's a cap to the amount of insult we're all willing to endure. I don't know about you but they've reached it for me. I want some f*cking answers NOW.

[chhansen]

I wish people would quit saying, "Im not a conspiracy theorist!" Speculating is what all investigators do, and they use what facts they have to form possible conclusions, and when new facts come into play, those conclusions can change, or narrow down the possibilities!

[Axis_Mundi_Design]

The lone assassin didn’t have a problem getting onto the roof without a ladder. But a team of a more than a dozen well trained officers had to wait for a ladder to be delivered to them? They should all resign.

[JClaus]

So this proves that the message was heard (or relayed) by USSS, at least to the Snipers. How could this same info have not have been heard (or relayed) to Trump's detail around him? They are team 1 in his security. What a failure of planning, execution and performance by all involved. No clue why this local sniper would have left his post if he could see the entire sweep of the back roof areas, makes no sense. Crooks was no threat at all on the ground. And why go to ground, when he himself could have covered all roof areas? They said 2 local snipers were in the building, I would like to know what happened to local sniper 2 and who he was and where he was.

[alancoughlin]

Officer Greg looks pretty chill coming out that door right after the shooting. Knowing what just happened would get anyone, especially a cop, to be on alert. He is overly relaxed, as if trying to appear nonchalant after doing something bad.

[PAHero]

Officer Greg is not the issue. The question is if the Secret Service sniper team turned around to look north at 18 1010 and the shooting started at 18 1132, the Secret Service had 82 seconds to get Trump off of the stage. Why didn’t they

[ivanbaric]

20 men can not work out how to climb 2M. Waiting for a ladder ? Not much going on between the ears.

[jeanettevandiver]

The original story was that Greg and another officer were on lookout. Greg spotted Crooks leaving the picnic table, so the other officer went downstairs and outside to try and locate Crooks. Supposedly, after the other officer couldn't locate C, nor get back into the building, Greg headed down to let him in. Greg left his post immediately before the shooting started. That's why Greg is so sus.

[fntsmk]

AND... there's this. I wore the badge once for a couple years, though I decided not to pursue it as a lifelong career. That said, if you see someone suspicious marking range to the stage with a range finder, you don't just take a picture of him and send a text saying: "Have a uniform check this guy out." YOU DO IT YOURSELF. I MEAN... You're THERE. This guy Greg supposedly was going "off shift., " and said he was putting his rifle away in the trunk of his vehicle. Never heard of any officer going "off shift" on a high profile event. But in any case, there is NO "off shift" for LE when they see a crime in progress, or a suspicious person at a high profile event. Officer Greg owns all of the misery, harm, death, costs, and national angst that happened that day, because he decided to just "phone it in, " instead of taking the lead himself.

[joeblow]

After hearing multiple gunshots outside of a building they are in, no Police officer in the country would exit that building without their firearm out. Greg Nichols did not. People telegraph what they know, without being aware of it, all the time.