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I found out who's protecting Maxwell Yearick.

It's the same people who were on the Water Tower.

Also one of the same people who left all the blood in the bathroom from an injury that was overheard on walkie-talkies between officers.

The 🧵🧵🧵**THREAD**🧵🧵🧵to destroy every false narrative.Image
2/ The Locals
>https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/the-locals

Several of the local officers on-duty on July 13, 2024 at the Butler, PA rally gave a TV interview and have shared many statements through attorneys to the ABC News network.
3/ Butler’s own @realDJStew724

Amongst the frenzied reporting of the aftermath of the Butler Rally has been a recently prominent figure in disseminating information about the Butler area, as well as promulgating and promoting overlooked information about the events that day.

Recently, an X account using the handle “@realDJStew724” claimed to be filming that day and self-identified as local native Dave Stewart. Stewart claims to be the individual in the red shirt running the video below:
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There has to date been no concrete way to verify his claims of identity, however. Stewart has also offered his YouTube channel, which clearly displays a LONG history with local (Butler) police.

Stewart was identified in what he claims was an impromptu (and hypothetically illegal) interrogation at 10pm one evening. His purported audio is provided below:
5/ Butler County District Attorney Richard “Rich” E. Goldinger
>https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/butler-county-district-attorney-richard-rich-e-goldinger

Butler County D.A. Rich Goldinger ran for Judge in 2021 as a Democrat, but has since proclaimed to be a Republican.

Goldinger served as the President of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute in 2021, and was the Former President of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association.

Goldinger yields considerable influence over the Butler County ESU.Image
6/ ABC News Interview Excerpts (edited for time only)
>gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/abc-news-interview

ABC blurred the timestamp in the broadcast of the video but then used a “jump edit” to a clip with the timestamp NOT blurred, only bolstering the “fear” story given by officers climbing onto the roof 20 minutes after Crooks’ demise.

Oddly about ABC is that they are the recipient of federal funding by way of “National Cable Satellite Corporation” or commonly known as “C-SPAN.”
7/ Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (BCESU)
>https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/beaver-county-emergency-services-unit-bcesu

Patrick Young
Robert Patrick "Pat" Young is the commander of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit. He is a well-respected and regarded as highly capable and proficient in mitigating "extraordinary events."
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Chief among his roles with the Unit are his contributions to the Electronic Forensics Unit — which in a perfect world, would have reasonably made troubleshooting and compliance of electronic equipment a non-issue on July 13th.

Young's role with the Crimes Against Children Federal Task Force lands him squarely in coordination on a regular basis with the FBI.beavercountypa.gov/getmedia/e1553…Image
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8/ Michel Vasiladiotis-Nicol
>https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/michel-vasiladiotis-nicol

Another member of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit is Physician Assistant Michel Vasiladiotis-Nicol, the wife of Beaver County ESU counter-sniper, Gregory Nicol.

Vasiladiotis-Nicol was a SWAT MEDIC on duty at the Butler Rally and is captured in the 28 total minutes of the bodycam footage released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Image
9/ Greg Nicol
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/greg-nicol

Michel’s husband, Gregory Nicol, was also on the scene of the Butler Rally as a counter-sniper. Greg Nicol would prove to be a centerpiece of the “communication breakdown” at the most crucial point of the entire day.

Nicol first popped onto the internet radar in 2013 when he was featured in an article bringing attention to the Monaca Police Department’s new K-9, Kazan, joining the force.
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Greg Nicol’s LinkedIn page also offers his “Interests,” which include the Department of Justice, the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA), and FBI-LEEDA.
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FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, or FBI-LEEDA, is a nonprofit leadership development program for public law enforcement officers worldwide based right outside Philadelphia, PA.

National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) is the group tasked with devising and implementing response protocols for an astounding assortment of situations and scenarios, filtered to LEOs nationwide by federal agencies and task forces.

Greg’s wife, Michel, along with Patrick Young are verifiably part of the 2023 National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) Standards Review Committee while a Physician’s Assistant for Beaver County.timesonline.com/story/news/loc…
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10/ National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA)
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/national-tactical-officers-association-ntoa

The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) has the privilege of drafting the “Tactical Response and Operations Standard for Law Enforcement Agencies,” published in 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2023.


These standards are, simply put, a summary of widely acknowledged “best practices” for responding to crisis situations, and form the general basis from which law enforcement agencies around the world operate.

Pictured below are the NTOA standards for a “TIER 4 Perimeter Control and Containment Team,” and further below, a “Span of Control Example” illustrating NTOA’s recommended command structure.

“The scope of this standard includes concepts and principles related to the organization, training, operational tactics, personnel management, and equipment of tactical law enforcement teams. The standard will not dictate how member agencies will write and apply specific policies related to such operations. Instead, it will provide guidance based on the terminology and collective viewpoint of the NTOA organization and its stakeholder partners.“ntoa.org/pdf/TROS.pdfImage
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11/ NTOA 2023 Impact Report
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/ntoa-impact-report

The National Tactical Officers Association advertises itself having 40,000 members representing almost 20,000 agencies worldwide.

“Across three regions, all 50 states and 32 countries, the National Tactical Officers Association provides training to federal, state, county, municipal, international law enforcement agencies and other first responders. Our training programs are the heart of the NTOA. It is at this level where our members, students, instructors, and partners professionally, socially, and personally link to each other and the broader public safety community."ntoa.org/pdf/impactrepo…Image
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12/ NTOA Standard Review Committee
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/ntoa-standard-review-committee

The group’s Standard Review Committee is comprised of NTOA members from all over the United States. As luck would have it, two officers on the scene that day also served on the Standard Review Committee, who just published their most recent standards in June of 2023.

Notice in these excerpts from the “Tactical Response and Operations Standard for Law Enforcement Agencies,” that the Commander of the entire Beaver County Emergency Services Unit along with Michel Vasiladiotis-Nicol actually review the standards sent out to law enforcement worldwide.

Other notable figures to the committee give the Pennsylvania State Police representation with Matthew Falcone, and the American Sniper Association a seat at the table with Derrick D. Bartlett.Image
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13/ 7150 Campus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/campus-drive-colorado-springs-co

NTOA’s registered address on 2022 IRS nonprofit tax forms was “7150 Campus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO.” Though the filing is without a suite number or sub-unit designation, NTOA uses Suite 215 of the building.

7150 Campus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO is the Woodmen Corporate Center that houses several companies like DoD services providers Summit Technical Solutions, LLC and Delta Solutions and Strategies, LLC, an investment firm called PFS Investments (a wholly owned subsidiary of Primerica Finance Corporation), G4S Secure Solutions (formerly Wackenhut), and Salem Media Group.

All of the companies listed above, including Salem Media Group, have received federal funding in some form in the past ten years.

The Pentagon IT services provider Leidos also has a presence in the building, though more difficult to pin down.

Curiously, this Suite 300 address, specifically, is either currently, or was very recently shared by behavioral health specialists who, like many of these other tenants, receive(d) a substantial amount of government funding.

NTOA co-sponsored an “Active Shooter Symposium” just over two weeks before the active shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

This is not meant to convey or imply any sort of nefarious activity per se, but to illustrate the totality of their relationships. This only goes to highlight the tight-knit relationship of the NTOA’s role as one of the many nonprofit arms of federal capabilities, in whatever capacity.Image
14/ The Situation
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/the-situation

The crux of the failed response to shooter Thomas Crooks and his position atop the AGR, International building is in the moments before the first shots rang out at 6:12 PM.

Fox New Digital’s newly released video reaffirms many widely held suspicions that the official testimonies of agency and local law enforcement leadership is not only confusing, but verifiably misleading.

“Injured” police officer doesn’t appear injured
Until now, the prevailing narrative has been that the local officer who made first contact with Thomas Crooks injured his hands to the point of bleeding at the scene. Newly released video shows that was not the case at all in regards to the first officer to make contact with Crooks.

In fact, the same local officer (first point of contact) is also purported to have climbed the building and seen the shooter, Thomas Crooks, point the weapon at him before falling back off of the building.

The discrepancy here isn’t that this unidentified officer fell off of the building, but that the trained officer runs immediately into the line of sight of the shooter he just supposedly identified as armed.

Mere seconds after doing so, shots rang out from the building complex.
15/ The Lead-Up
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/the-lead-up

Text messages released by the office of Senator Chuck Grassley paint a stunning and equally terrifying picture of an undermanned, ill-informed mobilization to fill the gaps in security for the rally that day.

On July 8th, text messages show that Butler Police requested assistance from Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU), of which Patrick Young was the Commander, and for which both Michel and Greg Nicol served.Image
16/ The Activation
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/the-activation

It would seem from the text messages that the third member of the Beaver County ESU that left early could be Patrick Young, indicated by the text messages showing the responses in the color grey, one with the last initial “N,” and the other not a “Y” for “Young.”

Remember back to the clips of Stewart’s alleged interrogation above, where he volunteers that he left work at Sheetz at around 4:30pm.

There was a text sent to the group that Nicol was privy to at around 4:30PM that highlighted a supposed newcomer who parked their *car* in the lot, and who was sitting at a picnic table nearby one of the building’s entrances.

Oddly, this person at the picnic table was referred to simply as “he” as if everyone already knew who the texter was referring to.

Beyond the strangely worded texts in regards to the picnic table, Nicol knowingly introduced even more confusion around the unattended bicycle and backpack than necessary.

At 5:52PM, the officer who left the rally early fired another text to the Beaver County unit that said “that bike was not there when I pulled out…” referring to the picture of a bicycle that had just been sent to Command at 5:51PM.Image
17/ What could have been...
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/what-could-have-been

Bodycam footage and aerial footage of the scene immediately following the incident clearly show the 2nd floor window with a clear view of everything Crooks would have been up to in the moments before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The video below is from @RepEliCrane's own investigation of the shooting as an experienced combat sniper. It makes abundantly obvious that anyone at all in the 2nd floor had not only an open view of Crooks, but that the window even opened in a manner which provided a clean shot at Crooks’ position.
18/ Nicol LIED about Crooks leaving for Sheetz
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/nicol-lied-about-crooks-leaving-for-sheetz

Nicol did not have a visual at all on the picnic table that was actually relevant to Sheetz from anywhere in the 2nd story, as it was obscured completely by the first story building.

Further, Nicol had no read on anything on the “Sheetz side” of the building from where he is reported to have been.

The Washington Post correctly pointed out recently that the statement Nicol gave about the suspect walking toward Sheetz was odd due to the layout of the building.

Nicol’s assertion was that Crooks was walking from the enclosed side of the building in a direction that would have put him on a path directly through the building.

Nicol leaving the perch in the 2nd story left only one sniper in the AGR perch (as of 4:30 PM), set up in the “far” two windows, indicated in the Butler County After Action Report supplied to Senator Grassley’s office.

https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/washington-post-finally-circles-the-wagonsImage
19/ FIRST CONTACT
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/first-contact

If Crooks was the person seated at the table referenced in text messages at 4:30 that afternoon, then at 5:52 when he was advised about the new bike, Greg Nicol should have already been aware that the bicycle and backpack did not belong to Crooks.
Nicol noticed a bicycle unattended and a person who saw the photo (Patrick Young?) suggested investigating a car that pulled into the parking around 4:30 PM in — again — the complete opposite direction.
Greg Nicol sent the pictures himself that in one move heightened suspicions, to which he gave a general, admitted guess of a response in text at 6:00 PM when he said, “If I had to guess towards the back. Away from the event.”

The unnamed Butler Police officer was first to contact shooter on the roof, evidenced in the video recently released by CNN and Fox News Digital (August 8th). This Butler officer was not bleeding from his attempts at accessing the shooter on the roof at 6:10-6:11 PM, as has been previously asserted.

Beaver County ESU officer Greg Nicol could be seen immediately after the shots downstairs with ground team in video (7:15) posted to X by user @realDJStew724 (below with “loudness-enhanced“ audio).Image
20/ The Second Window
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/the-second-window

Beaver County ESU officer Greg Nicol and Beaver County themselves put on record with Senator Grassley in their After Action Report (above) that the “BCESU Sniper” (blue square) was accompanied by the “Butler Co. Sniper” (teal triangle) in the 2nd floor perch or command center for the local police SWAT forces.

Greg Nicol declined to use either of the two open windows with a perfect line of sight to what would be Crooks’ final resting place after his murderous outburst. The side window of the 2nd floor — with roof access — even appeared in bodycam footage released by Senator Grassley to be completely missing, or very recently cleaned.Image
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21/ Five Murderous Minutes
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/five-murderous-minutes

At 6:12PM, according to Beaver County ESU, Nicol’s position was on building “4” (Grassley diagrams) near the original spot Nicol radioed seeing Crooks headed toward the Sheetz gas station (through a solid structure) at approximately 6:05 PM.
According to them, the “BCESU Sniper” was at the corner of the building, and presumably everywhere between 2nd floor lookout and the corner where Dave Stewart was filming for the five minutes of chaos between 6:06 and 6:11PM.

At 6:08:20, it hit the radio that someone was on the roof. Three minutes was plenty enough to access either of those 2nd floor windows to access the roof, or to neutralize the threat.
The rally goer mentioned in the timeline above was close enough to law enforcement that if someone were in the 2nd story sniper windows, the message could easily have been relayed to someone to get them onto the roof from their command center.

It was during this five minutes of Nicol’s unknown whereabouts that Crooks made it onto the roof, and the same time when a person was caught scurrying across the AGR rooftop on video.Image
22/ Final Thoughts
https://gusquixote. substack .com/i/147378236/final-thoughts

The Trump Campaign announced the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 3rd.

The National Tactical Officers Association received a second payment of $16,275 on an I.C.E. (DHS) contract totaling $135,825 on July 5, 2024.

Where there snipers in the 2nd floor command center at the time of the first shots?

Why were they not trying to neutralize a suspect on the roof from their perfect position?

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Aug 5
1/ Introduction

This is a glimpse of an unfortunately realistic picture that clearly indicates those who carry the burden of direct responsibility for the attempted assassination of a former and future U.S. President.

I firmly believe the only explanation is an intentional lapse in security, like the one on full display for the world on October 7, 2023 along the border of Gaza and Israel.

This is a detailed thread of how those who wrote security policy willfully chose to ignore it, and have subsequently and consistently misled others tasked with the responsibility of securing the premises that fateful day.
2/ Beaver County Sheriff's Department
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Robert Patrick "Pat" Young is the commander of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit. He is a well-respected and regarded as highly capable and proficient in mitigating "extraordinary events."

Chief among his roles with the Unit are his contributions to the Electronic Forensics Unit - which should have reasonably made troubleshooting and compliance of electronic equipment a non-issue on July 13th.

Young's role with the Crimes Against Children Federal Task Force lands him squarely in coordination on a regular basis with the FBI themselves.
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Another member of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit is Physician Assistant Michel Vasiladiotis-Nicol, the wife of Beaver County ESU counter-sniper, Gregory Nicols.

The only article I have located that uses Michel's full married name has curiously vanished.
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Michel joined Pat Young as part of the 2023 National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) Standards Review Committee.

The NTOA, as you are about to see, is THE group tasked with devising and implementing response protocols for an astounding assortment of situations and scenarios, filtered to LEOs nationwide by federal agencies and task forces...beavercountypa.gov/getmedia/e1553…
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3/ National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA)

The NTOA touts a GLOBAL footprint of nearly 20,000 agencies, including those based in Hong Kong, Japan, India, Afghanistan, Kuwait, UAE, Europe and many, many other nations and regions.

Pertinent to today's focus, other officers who joined the NTOA's 2023 Standard Review Committee included the President of the American Sniper Association and a Corporal of the Pennsylvania State Police, Matthew Falcone.

All three members of the Beaver County ESU - Patrick Young, Michel Vasiladiotis-Nicol and her husband, Gregory Nicol, were at the scene of the shooting at the Butler rally on July 13th, and were subsequently interviewed by ABC just last week.

The SWAT Team leader at the Butler rally was Jason Woods, but the ESU TEAM leader was Patrick Young - member of the NTOA and its Standards Review Committee.

This brings us to Officer Gregory Nicols, who in 2013 was positioned to become the K-9 officer for the borough of Monaca, PA.
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Jul 28
This one is for my own sanity to remove all doubt for myself.

I FOUND THE MOMENT.

DEAD TO RIGHTS.

NO SHOTS FIRED YET.

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@dbongino Told ya y'all should heard me out.
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Jul 25
SEVERAL THINGS from this BODY CAM FOOTAGE that I'm not sure @chrismartenson caught as I go through his own analysis...

The @ABC anchor said that the:
"...the goverment tried to kill former President..."
at the outset of the segment

ABC BLURRED THE TIME in the broadcast of the video but then used a JUMP EDIT to a clip with it NOT blurred.

KEEP IN MIND FOR THIS CLIP THAT C-SPAN PAYS ABC EVERY YEAR FOR BROADCASTING.

GO HERE AND THE LINK IS NEXT POST>

Later in the video, @ABC uses the caption bar to hide the time jump in the edit.

A little further, and the video jumps all the way to timecode 19:09:01.Image
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Jul 25
***DID YOU KNOW***

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports tips online as part of their Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitoring (DTTM) program?

They police your speech "for free" and submit tips to the FBI for review if your speech crosses MEMRI's lines, not the FBI.

Now combine the realities that Google, Amazon, and Apple all are tethered to a continuous stream of data which has been provided after a simple written request from authorities (4th Amendment).

This all creates the same effect as having the government in your living room, refrigerator, air conditioning, and all of your smart appliances inside your home, 24/7 (3rd Amendment).

What other nonprofits across the country are policing social media for tips and actionable items to send to the @FBI???
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Jul 24
In light of the @FBI testifying before Congress today about the investigation into the attempted assassination of former President and current Presidential candidate @realDonaldTrump...

This is no time for Christopher Wray to hide behind "ongoing investigations" nor to show up and not answer ANY question. There is NO REASON this should be classified.

In consideration of the abject failure of policy and procedure throughout the entirety of that day, there should also be no reason for even one question to go unanswered under oath that could compromise disclosing operational intelligence.

Please pardon the unprofessional presentation, this has been put together piecemeal.
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In the first video, I illustrate that one specific area of that event can provide the most valuable information there can be.

I also point out the trajectory of the bullet that clipped Trump's ear and injured a rally-goer.

In the next two videos, I provide evidence that the first grouping of shots fired (3) were different in "tone" and "amplitude" than the shots that followed.

In the fourth video, I walk through the flag being raised and lowered periodically throughout the day leading up to Trump's speech - normally nothing of concern when not dealing with an assassination attempt into a 5-15mph crosswind.

I also then draw attention to the behavior of the sniper team over Trump's right shoulder, frame-left.
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I hope this information can help inform the situation as it currently stands
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