was\u00a0there when the chaos unfolded<\/a>.<\/p>\n“It was just chaos and confusion. Nobody\u00a0really fully understood what happened or why everybody stormed into the room. And then\u00a0they said, ‘shots fired,’ and so\u00a0everybody went down, as low to the ground as they could get just\u00a0to, obviously, avoid\u00a0any potential crossfire. It was unnerving\u00a0more so\u00a0for me because my wife was there and we have two young kids, and, obviously, you\u00a0focus on that in the moment,” he said.<\/p>\n
The video of the suspected shooter, identified as 31-year-old\u00a0Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California,\u00a0is now generating questions about Trump’s security and how a gunman could get so close to the president.<\/p>\n
One Secret Service agent was wounded in the melee but survived the shooting. Trump said a bullet proof vest is what saved his life.<\/p>\n
“Maybe the perimeter should have been, you know, further. Maybe it should have been before you get into the hotel,” said former NYPD detective and Long Island-based security professional Kevin Schroeder.\u00a0He says Secret Service agents responded well at that moment in time.<\/p>\n
“I mean this was the third time, if it is against President Trump. This is the third time\u00a0now this attempt has happened. And so\u00a0I\u00a0believe that Secret Service will be looking at everything and they’ll be doing the adjustments that need to be done moving forward,” he concluded.<\/p>\n
Trump spoke after the disruption of the event and said the Correspondents’ Dinner will be rescheduled and held at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closed circuit television captured images of an armed man sprinting through security at the Washington D.C. Hilton Hotel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-210689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}