Body camera footage from a police officer who responded to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last month in Pennsylvania shows the intra-cop quarrels in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The video shows the officer with the body camera running through a field toward a building in the area where shots had been fired at Trump. He passes someone holding a Trump flag and keeps running through a parking lot, his gun flashing in the periphery of his camera.

“Is he hit?” he asked another officer standing outside the building.

They replied, “I’m not sure.”

Video footage from body cameras on Butler Township Police Department officers, obtained by The Intercept, shed light on the chaos among law enforcement officials responding to the assassination attempt. The videos confirm previous reporting that a lack of communication and coordination between federal, state, and local police led to confusion at the rally and reflected insufficient preparation. The Butler police, for their part, had not had a chief for a month leading up to the attack.

The footage also shows in real time law enforcement officials’ frustration in the moments just after the shooting and provides insight into how police respond in emergencies and how little they are actually able to do in an active shooter situation. The videos document the frantic nature of the response, including police asking minutes after gunfire erupted why no officers were posted on the building used by the shooter.

Additional body camera footage shows one officer telling his colleagues minutes after the shooting that he warned the Secret Service well ahead of the rally to post agents at the building used by the shooter. Other video footage from the immediate aftermath shows a sergeant making phone calls to make sure that his family and children, who had attended the rally, got out OK.

In a statement to The Intercept, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said the agency was aware that local police had released the footage and reiterated its support for local agencies that supported the........

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