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An eyewitness who was detained by the police on the day of the Trump assassination try has come ahead with explosive claims.
The witness claims that in his time in police custody, he overheard alarming particulars on police radios that weren’t disclosed to the general public.
The witness, who goes by the identify Dave James Stewart or “realDJStew724” on YouTube, claims to have overheard police discussing the presence of blood in a rest room and a possible second shooter on the free.
Stewart first posted a video on July 28, fifteen days after the capturing, that reveals police reacting to a perceived risk on the roof of the constructing a number of minutes earlier than the would-be murderer, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fireplace.
Two minutes earlier than Crooks’ first shot, an officer could possibly be seen together with his handgun drawn as he stored watch on the roof from the other aspect of the place Crooks turned out to be.
The person, who seems to be the identical man in a go well with later seen in police bodycam video speaking with officers on the roof guarding Crooks’ physique, simply wished to {photograph} Stewart’s ID. A state trooper would quickly take Stewart into custody and take his telephone, apparently giving it to the FBI who would hold it for nearly every week.
Stewart wrote on his YouTube channel, “Pricey PA State Police Trooper who cuffed me and roughed me up: Don’t ever tread on me once more. You understand what you probably did. Your accomplice higher have had that bodycam on. That footage higher not be deleted. You’re going to pay for what you probably did to me.”
Our group by AGR. Everybody of those individuals watched a cop come down from the stage and tough me up and arrest me. They instructed me I gotta do one thing about that. So in case you’re in his image or know who’s – contact me please! pic.twitter.com/ObfAeqT8AD
— Dave (@realDJStew724) August 10, 2024
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Axios reported:
David James Stewart was attempting to get a glimpse of a Trump rally after clocking out from a close-by Sheetz comfort retailer on Saturday. He ended up changing into a witness to an assassination attempt.
Why it issues: Stewart was standing proper beneath the Butler, Pennsylvania constructing the place the shooter was and took a video, later seized by regulation enforcement, he instructed Axios.
- Former President Trump was shot in the earon Saturday in an assault that left one rally attendee useless and one other two wounded, the Secret Service stated.
- The suspect was capturing from an elevated place outdoors the rally’s safety perimeter.
Zoom in: Somebody yelled AK after they noticed the shooter, Stewart stated.
- Then bullets beginning going over Stewart’s head. He took video and continued recording for 10–quarter-hour after the capturing.
- Stewart instructed Axios that regulation enforcement began capturing on the suspect on the rooftop instantly. One other witness instructed Stewart that he noticed the suspect’s head get blown aside.
Between the traces: Stewart was taken on the again of a Homeland Safety car crammed with different witnesses to a constructing the place he was instructed to not speak to different witnesses and spoke to Pennsylvania State Police, Homeland Safety and others.
- Regulation enforcement instructed Stewart that 18 complete witnesses have been held in that constructing after the capturing.
- Stewart had been simply launched and was again at Sheetz when he spoke with Axios on Saturday night time.
On July 30, Dave Stewart released an audio recording of his interrogation by a State Police trooper who adopted him to a fuel station.
Dave stated, “I used to be sitting in my automobile in a fuel station car parking zone with my entrance sunshade up for about 45 minutes once I seen a PSP trooper at my window. I began recording audio from a brand new telephone that I purchased particularly for this. Once I take my sunshade down, I see {that a} PSP cruiser has my automobile blocked in.”
This incident occurred a day earlier than his scheduled meet-up with the FBI at 10:00 a.m. the following day to retrieve his telephone, which was taken by regulation enforcement.
Whereas sitting in his automobile. The officers questioned him about his whereabouts and actions on the day of the capturing, at one level exhibiting him a blurry photograph and asking if he acknowledged the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Throughout the recording, Stewart could be heard confronting the trooper about being detained and blocked in.
Trooper: The place are you staying at, buddy?
Stewart: Am I being Are you being detained proper now?
Trooper: Sure.
Stewart: For what?
Trooper: He’ll clarify. So you’ll be able to’t go away proper now.
Stewart: Why? Oh f—okay. You motherf—ker. You are sensible. F—okay… You guys are f—king doing one thing. You guys are doing one thing fishy.
Trooper: We’re not.
Stewart: Yeah, you might be.
Trooper: No, we’re not.
Stewart: Yeah, you might be.
A visibly confused and alarmed Stewart requested the officers how they have been capable of find him. A trooper who recognized himself as Trooper Glasgow of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop D responded, “We’re good at what we do.”
Stewart: Hey, what did I do Why did you guys block me in?
Trooper: Pay attention, we have to speak to you.
Stewart: What are you guys attempting to do?
Trooper: We’re attempting to get you with the FBI to get your telephone again.
Stewart: Why this time of night time? I used to be already there. I used to be already on the police barracks earlier. Received no solutions. I used to be there yesterday at midday. Received no solutions. I drove right down to the FBI constructing myself. I perceive that. And why are you coming right here? How did you even know I used to be proper right here?
Trooper: As a result of we have been attempting to come up with you.
Stewart: How the fuck did you discover me right here?
Trooper: We’re good at what we do.
Stewart: What?
Trooper: So here is the way in which this works. They should speak to you so we will get this all behind us.
Stewart: You are not speaking to me proper now at 10 o’clock at night time.
Trooper: Properly, that is what they wish to do. That is what the directions we got is.
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Stewart recounts an earlier incident involving a ‘man in a crimson truck’ who allegedly threatened individuals close to the fence line, claiming to personal the property and attempting to drive individuals to depart. Dave believed on the time that this man may need been concerned within the capturing.
Trooper: Perhaps it is a blurry photograph, however do you recall seeing this man [Crooks] ever?
Stewart: No. No. What concerning the crimson truck man? The one which was attempting to shoo us away from the constructing, the one which was inflicting fights, attempting to battle us all like an hour earlier than Trump arrived?
Trooper: Inform me about that.
Stewart: Properly, there was a man in a crimson truck, in all probability early to mid-2000s, Ford Ranger, single cab, vibrant crimson, white man, older, 50, perhaps virtually 60, salt and pepper hair, grey shirt, blue denims. He was developing, telling all people that he owned the constructing. That this was his space and we have been all trespassing. We would have liked to maneuver away from the constructing.
He was getting in individuals’s faces, pointing his finger at outdated guys’ faces. After which he left, pissed off, received in his truck, drove across the AGR constructing for 20 seconds, after which drove again round. As he was getting out of his truck, he put one thing down his pants. I ran again over to the gang and instructed them, ‘Yo, that man that was simply harassing you all? He is coming again, and I feel he may need a gun or one thing. This man’s fucked.’ And he got here again and began harassing individuals much more. So we began waving the police down from the rally space to come back down towards us, towards the fence. They usually got here down, they talked to that man.
Trooper: Maintain on a second. So this white male, describe him once more.
Stewart: White male, in all probability in his 50s. I’d say mid-50s vary. Salt and pepper, lengthy hair, perhaps about so long as mine, perhaps a bit bit shorter. Only a grey shirt and blue denims. And he had a crimson truck, and it is a mid to early 2000s Ford Ranger, vibrant crimson. A single cab, as a result of I am fairly positive it was a bit factor.
Trooper: You stated mid-2000s?
Stewart: Yeah, mid-2000s, mid to early 2000s Ford Ranger.
Trooper: And also you stated he owned the place?
Stewart: He was claiming that he owned the place. However I used to be speaking to this woman named Val. She lives proper behind the farm present. She’s like, ‘I’ve lived right here endlessly. That man does not personal this place.’
Trooper: Okay. So he stated that you simply all wanted to depart?
Stewart: That all of us wanted to depart. He was screaming, ‘Get the fuck out of right here. Fuck all you individuals.’
Trooper: He drove across the constructing?
Stewart: Yeah, within the car parking zone that just about comes as much as the fence line. He received again into his truck, after which he drove out of sight. After which he got here again. We have been like, ‘What was that about?’
Trooper: What did he do when he got here again?
Stewart: He stored yelling at individuals much more, however he was much more pissed off, however extra assured. And I noticed him have one thing black in his hand, and he shoved it down his pants.
Trooper: Was this when he got here again?
Stewart: Sure.
Trooper: He had one thing black in his fingers?
Stewart: Sure. And he shoved it down his pants. I went over to the gang and was like, ‘Hey, that man that was harassing you all earlier? I feel he may need a gun. He is coming again much more indignant.’ So then we began flagging down the police from the rally space.
Trooper: Did he go away at that time?
Stewart: The police got here and talked to him. After which after they talked to him, principally, I feel they instructed him, ‘Hey, dude, there is a hundred individuals down right here at this fence line. What are you going to do? Simply go. Simply go away.’ After which he left.
Trooper: Was it state police or native police?
Stewart: It is on that video. I videoed the interplay between that man and people cops. I am unable to consider crowd management wasn’t despatched down at that time. It was uncontrolled, that fence line. There was a friggin horse there.
Trooper: Was there anything about this truck, like stickers or something like that?
Stewart: I wasn’t shut sufficient. I solely noticed it from the entrance. And I simply—
Trooper: Or something on his shirt?
Stewart: No, I simply understand it was vibrant crimson, like that sweet apple crimson, that vibrant crimson. And it was a type of darkish grey, simply plain shirts, simply common. He simply regarded like an everyday dude.
Trooper: Round what time do you suppose this all occurred?
Stewart: It will be timestamped on the video. You guys have it. I’d say it was positively earlier than the motorcade arrived, for positive, as a result of that is once I began filming. It did not cease when the motorcade arrived. However the entire battle and all the things between that man, that was, I might say, a half-hour. I’d say perhaps 5 o’clock. It was shortly after I arrived. Really, yeah, I’d say it was round 5 o’clock. It was shortly after I arrived, as a result of it took me a few minutes to stroll throughout the sector proper there. I left my automobile and simply walked over.
Pay attention:
Essentially the most alarming a part of Stewart’s testimony comes from what he claims to have overheard on the police radio: experiences of blood present in a rest room and a second shooter nonetheless at massive.
Trooper: Have you ever ever met or spoken to Mr. Crooks earlier than?
Stewart: No.
Trooper: No?
Stewart: Yeah. Get the fuck out of right here. You guys suppose I am concerned?
Trooper: No, simply asking.
Stewart: That is a weird-ass query. Who’re you asking, bro?
Trooper: I’ve requested everybody.
[…]
Stewart: “Yeah, as a result of once we have been first ducking… Once they moved us all from the again of the AGR constructing, and Homeland Safety and the opposite man with the lengthy gun moved us over to the Township police automobile to take cowl there, the door was open, and we might hear the radio communications. They usually stated, ‘Shooter useless on the roof.’
After which they stated, ‘We breached the constructing. There’s blood within the rest room, second shooter on the free.’ As a result of if the man climbed the constructing and shot from there, how was there blood discovered inside a WC inside that constructing? So there needed to be a second shooter, proper? That received shot or one thing.”
Trooper: You bought moved to a different constructing by who?
Stewart: Moved to a different space by Homeland Safety. I received the cuffs taken from behind me to the entrance by Homeland Safety. After which once we received moved over to Township. The Township Police have been like, ‘Stewart?’ And I am like, ‘Yeah, please take these cuffs off me.’ They usually took the cuffs off me. After which they moved us throughout the road. After which they have been like, ‘That is even a horrible spot over right here. If the dude desires to shoot out the home windows, get within the trunk of our automobile over right here, and we’ll drive you to the farm present.’
Trooper: Okay. So what was it that you simply heard on the radio?
Stewart: There was a shooter useless on the roof, after which they have been clearing the constructing, and so they discovered blood within the rest room. They usually stated, ‘second suspect at massive,’ or one thing like that, or no matter. I do not know. However blood was discovered within the rest room, I keep in mind that for positive. As a result of that is what had us freaked out, as a result of that is what the cops have been telling us. Like, ‘Hey, the second shooter continues to be round right here. So let’s transfer from this level over so far the place it is safer.’ After which they’re like, ‘Properly, it isn’t secure over right here. Let’s take you over right here.'”
Trooper: So that you did not truly see any potential second shooter?
Stewart: No, I assumed the crimson truck man was as a result of what I believed was when the pictures have been going off, I believed it was the crimson truck man capturing us for being alongside his fence.
Trooper: You do not know who the crimson truck man is or something?
Stewart: Hell no. If I knew, I might inform you. His image is on the video. I received a close-up of his face.
Trooper: So there was some surveillance footage that indicated you and [Crooks] may need communicated at one level. Do you recall that in any respect?
Stewart: What?
Trooper: Yeah.
Stewart: No method. Let me see it.
Trooper: I haven’t got it with me.
Stewart: Properly, f—okay.
Trooper: We’ll have anyone textual content it to you.
Stewart: I wish to see that sh-t. Yeah, are you severe? I used to be inside inches from this man?
Trooper: Doubtlessly.
Stewart: No method. Wow. Not solely was I ft from the muzzle, however I used to be additionally f—king inches from the f—king man beforehand? Good Lord. I am taking place within the historical past books, my buddy. F—okay. God rattling it. This sucks. That is all in my thoughts proper now, bro. Holy sh—t. I am unable to consider you simply instructed me that. Oh, my God.
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Stewart wrote on X, “It could be on the sprint/physique cam of a Butler Township officer with white sun shades. I did not catch his identify. I rode behind his automobile with neon inexperienced man to the entrance of the constructing whereas the others within the group received in different automobiles.”
It could be on the sprint/physique cam of a Butler Township officer with white sun shades. I did not catch his identify. I rode behind his automobile with neon inexperienced man to the entrance of the constructing whereas the others within the group received in different automobiles
— Dave (@realDJStew724) August 9, 2024
The Gateway Pundit can not confirm this declare right now. A physique cam video later launched by Sen. Grassley confirmed an officer who allegedly had fallen and minimize his fingers, with discussions about him probably needing stitches. Many consider this incident may clarify the origin of the “blood within the rest room” story.
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So then when the opposite physique cam footage got here out and so they talked concerning the officer who fell and minimize his fingers (and stated he possible would wish stitches), many ppl thought that is the place the blood in rest room story got here from pic.twitter.com/v7ZSsY4hNh
— (@KateArete) August 9, 2024
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