Top police group blasts Secret Service for blaming local cops for Trump assassination attempt | 15 July 2024 | The nation's largest police group on Monday night blasted the Secret Service for trying to shift blame for the weekend assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., to local police. "Whatever happened in Butler, this was not a failure of the local, state, or federal officers on the ground who responded to the shots fired at former President Trump, they acted heroically and put their lives on the line to protect everyone else at the event. We must recognize that," Fraternal Order of Police President Patrick Yoes said. "This is a failure at the management or command level who failed to secure an obvious weakness in the security of this event." Yoes warned that Secret Service efforts to push blame down to local police for failing to secure a building rooftop used by the shooter would be counterproductive, especially with so many campaign events ahead in the election that will require local, state and federal officials to cooperate.