Wild moment drunk driver heading the wrong way on interstate narrowly avoids crashing into Kamala Harris' motorcade

Serious questions are being raised astir nan effectiveness of nan level of information being provided by nan Secret Service aft a suspected drunk driver came dangerously adjacent to Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade connected Interstate 94 successful Milwaukee connected Monday night. 

A 55-year-old Milwaukee man was driving nan incorrect measurement and heading westbound successful nan eastbound lanes of I-94 - and heading consecutive toward nan Vice President's convoy.

Despite nan motorcade's precocious level of protection surrounding nan vice president, nan driver was capable to attack nan convoy moments earlier Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies intervened and stopped him conscionable successful time. 

Police opportunity nan man had an unfastened vessel of alcohol successful nan car he was driving and believed him to beryllium impaired. 

After section sobriety tests were conducted nan man was taken into custody connected charges of operating while intoxicated and recklessly endangering safety.

According to nan apprehension report, erstwhile officers told nan driver 'he almost struck a conveyance successful nan VPOTUS motorcade, he was highly amazed and had nary recollection of entering nan freeway aliases coming adjacent to striking different vehicle. He besides stated he did not person immoderate volition of harming Vice President Kamala Harris aliases anybody related to her campaign.' 

While nary 1 was injured successful nan incident, nan truth that nan driver came truthful adjacent to nan Vice President has led to increasing concerns complete really specified a breach of information occurred. 

In a connection nan Secret Service said: 'We are alert of nan incident involving a motorist walking successful nan other guidance connected nan road while nan Vice President was successful her motorcade. We are grateful to nan Milwaukee Sheriff's Office for their consequence which allowed them to extremity nan motorist and return nan driver into custody for DUI.' 

The Secret Service, tasked pinch safeguarding some Harris and her Republican force Donald Trump, is facing scrutiny complete whether existent protocols are capable to forestall akin incidents successful nan future.   

The attempted assassination against erstwhile Trump astatine a Pennsylvania rally successful July was 'preventable and should not person happened', according to a bipartisan investigation into nan shooting elaborate successful a study from a House task force, released connected Monday.

It described the 'stunning information failures' surrounding nan event at a rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected July 13. 

One rallygoer was killed successful nan shooting and 2 others were wounded.

Members of some nan US House and Senate person many times questioned why nan Secret Service did not do a amended occupation communicating pinch section authorities during nan run rally.

Of peculiar interest was by a building that had been wide agreed to beryllium a information threat was not secured, thereby allowing gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, to entree it and unfastened fire.

Legislators successful their study attraction connected 'the fragmented lines of connection and unclear chains of command' betwixt nan Secret Service and Pennsylvania authorities and section police, but spot nan mostly of nan blasted connected nan Secret Service for nan information breakdown.

'Federal, state, and section rule enforcement officers could person engaged Thomas Matthew Crooks astatine respective pivotal moments,' nan study stated.

Legislators added that passim nan afternoon, 'as Crooks's behaviour became progressively suspicious, fragmented lines of connection allowed Crooks to evade rule enforcement' and climb onto nan unsecured tile wherever he would yet commencement shooting.

'Put simply, nan grounds obtained by nan Task Force to day shows nan tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not person happened,' nan study continued.

The preliminary findings are drawn from thousands of pages of documents, astir 2 twelve transcribed interviews pinch authorities and section officials arsenic good arsenic a bid of some classified and non-classified briefings from elder officials astatine nan Secret Service and nan FBI.

The study breaks small caller ground, arsenic nan grounded Secret Service consequence has been already documented by an independent commission, an interim Senate study arsenic good arsenic legislature grounds and news media investigations. 

The House report, for illustration others earlier it, does not place circumstantial individuals who whitethorn beryllium to blasted but at slightest 5 Secret Service agents person been placed connected modified duty.

The head of nan Secret Service astatine nan time, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned soon aft nan shooting, saying she took afloat work for nan lapse.

The task unit – comprising 7 Republicans and six Democrats – showcased immoderate of nan report's findings during a nationalist proceeding past month. 

Lawmakers opportunity they scheme to rumor a last report, including recommendations to debar early assassination attempts against governmental candidates, by mid-December.

The task unit has besides begun investigating a 2nd assassination effort connected Trump past period wherever Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, camped pinch a firearm extracurricular 1 of his play courses successful confederate Florida.

Earlier this month, fears emerged of a 3rd assassination effort on Trump erstwhile a man was arrested extracurricular his rally successful Coachella, California with 2 firearms and a precocious capacity magazine.