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I figured this all out last night... because, beside the shots sounding radically different, there didn't seem to be enough time between the cop dropping off the edge of the roof, hurting himself and yelling, "HE'S GOT A GUN!" and the start of the shots. Crooks was turned to the cop, pointing the gun at him. Getting turned back to draw a bead on Trump, I think, would have taken longer.
All the shooters say it was an easy shot, BUT not so easy for a kid with adrenaline pumping from encountering a cop to get turned around and line up his shot. Would have hurried him, but I don't think he could do it that fast. He might've gotten the five shots off without having gotten a good enough aim, sort of in a big rush to kill a Trumpster or so if not Donald.
I'm starting to think the SWAT team that opted to get inside instead of stay on that hot tin roof may actually have gone down into that same building, and there was a bad guy or two in the two-storey building behind him. I'm thinking this because the first accounts were that they'd done this, and because it accounts for why none of them at least drew on Crooks to arrest him, in the time he was up there, if they didn't just shoot him when he started aiming his gun. They'd've seen him immediately... like blinking neon.
That would imply "Secret Service Greg" we learn about in that building behind Crooks was either the first shooter or there to make sure the first shooter didn't make it out alive.
I just listened again to the Dave video I posted last night to see when the later shots happened, but it actually sounded sort of like a door getting kicked in or a heavy boot landing on a roof.
pipe up any time....
