‘I told them’: police body-cam reveals warning days before Trump shooting

In the chaotic aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month, a local police officer told a fellow officer he had warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured.

"I [bleep] told them they needed to post guys [bleep] over here," the officer said in police body-camera footage released by the Butler township police department, with expletives bleeped out. "I told them that [bleeped expletive] Tuesday."

When another officer asked who he told that to, he responded: "The Secret Service."

Police body-camera videos, released in response to a public records request, show frustration among local law enforcement officers at how Thomas Matthew Crooks - whom police had flagged as suspicious before the shooting - managed to slip away from their view, scale a roof and open fire with an AR-style rifle at the former US president and Republican presidential nominee. CNN had submitted a public records request and published the footage.

They also show police expressing confusion and anger about why no law enforcement had been stationed on the roof.

"I wasn't even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof," one officer says. He asked how "the hell" they could have lost sight of Crooks after spotting him acting suspiciously if law enforcement had been on top of the building. The other officer responded: "They were inside."

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