Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger is pushing back against claims that local officers abandoned their post at the AGR building during the Trump rally. In a letter issued yesterday, Goldinger said some of the statements Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris made to members of Congress this week were not entirely accurate. The DA claims one of the county sniper team members who was assigned to the interior of the building, briefly went outside to look for the suspicious person who ended up being gunman Thomas Crooks. That officer came back soon after, when he couldn’t find Crooks, meaning he was performing his assigned duties during that entire time, according to Goldinger. A PSP spokesperson says they stand by the commissioner’s testimony and the investigation into the shooting is still ongoing.
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