Video of Trump rally released by Butler Township police is available on Eagle's YouTube channel

Body camera and dashboard camera footage captured by Butler Township police at the July 13 campaign rally for former President Donald Trump is now available in full via the Butler Eagle YouTube channel.

The full videos, which were received through a request for information earlier this month, were released on Wednesday, August 21, with editing done only to blur graphic scenes and remove swear words from the audio.

The 12 videos were released by local police on August 8. Some of the videos were blurred before being published in the Eagle.

The released videos include footage from before Trump's attempted assassination as well as the aftermath, in which officers speak to witnesses, direct people away from the Butler Farm Show venue and even climb onto the roof to view the shooter's body.

An official said in a video that he had ordered Secret Service members to station staff at a meeting near the AGR International building on Tuesday before the rally.

In the same video, someone says to the officer wearing the body camera, “I thought you guys were on the roof,” followed by, “I didn't think about it because I thought someone was on the roof.”

There is also video of an officer being lifted onto the roof of AGR International by another officer before climbing down to announce that the person on the roof had a gun.

After falling to the ground, the officer appears to run to warn the other officers. However, there is no audio in the portion of the video where the officer encounters the shooter and the immediate aftermath of the incident is seen.

Other footage shows officers speaking to witnesses at the rally, including a person who was stopped because he resembled the shooter.

At one point in one of the videos, body camera footage shows a man in a suit and sunglasses asking the officer if the person on the roof was a shooter and if he had a gun.

Butler Township police declined to comment on the videos.

However, an email from Lt. Matthew Pearson said some of the videos included were without sound because it was “Record After the Fact” technology that allows authorities to go back in time and restore video footage.

Watch the videos at www.youtube.com/@butlereaglenews/videos.