Charlie Kirk’s security chief says police promise to cover rooftops failed before assassination

Two months aft Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk's assassination astatine Utah Valley University, his information manager said the calamity exposed preventable flaws successful however the lawsuit was coordinated and secured.

Brian Harpole, a seasoned law-enforcement serviceman and laminitis of Integrity Security Solutions, told "The Shawn Ryan Show" that his squad repeatedly raised concerns astir rooftop exposure, drone restrictions and staffing gaps successful the days earlier the Sept. 10 event.

"We were told the extortion was covered," Harpole said. "The main said, ‘I got you covered.’ I took him astatine his word."

"We can’t interruption the instrumentality to bash what needs to beryllium done, truthful we relied connected the constabulary and nary 1 was up there."

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Investigators hunt a taped-off country successful Orem, Utah, Thursday, September 11, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Harpole said helium had asked for further information based connected erstwhile high-risk events. He recalled a Turning Point USA quality successful San Francisco wherever protesters breached barriers and his squad had to combat its mode retired with small law-enforcement help.

"We’ve seen it before," helium said. "In San Francisco we had a thoroughfare takeover, radical climbing fences, our exit routes compromised. We knew however accelerated things tin spell bad."

Those experiences, helium said, shaped his requests for other officers and aerial enactment successful Utah.

"We told them this 1 was open-air, surrounded by elevated crushed — we needed much eyes, much coverage. But we were told it would beryllium handled."

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The country aft shots were fired astatine an quality by Charlie Kirk astatine Utah Valley University connected September 10, 2025, successful Orem, Utah.  Kirk, laminitis of Turning Point USA, was speaking connected his "American Comeback Tour" erstwhile helium was changeable successful the cervix and killed.   (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Harpole said Integrity brought 12 contractors, astir treble its accustomed staffing, but jurisdictional limits confined them to astir 30 meters astir the stage.

"Our work stopped astatine the bubble," helium said. "We can’t marque arrests oregon artifact pupil buildings — that’s instrumentality enforcement's job."

He said the Orem Police Department, which operates a drone and SWAT unit, was ne'er asked to assist, contempt a mutual-aid agreement.

"They told america aboriginal they were ne'er asked to come," Harpole said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Orem Police Department for comment.

TURNING POINT USA SAYS SECURITY LACKED JURISDICTION TO MONITOR ROOFTOP WHEN CHARLIE KIRK WAS ASSASSINATED

Harpole said helium specifically flagged pupil stairways starring to rooftops that offered a wide enactment of show to the stage.

"Three meters to the close oregon 10 to the near and determination is nary changeable — that’s however precise the space was," helium said.

He said his squad prepared to deploy drones for overwatch but was denied authorization nether FAA and field restrictions.

"This is Utah, not Iraq," Harpole said. "We couldn’t enactment snipers connected roofs oregon motorboat drones. We did what we could wrong the rules."

SCRUTINY INTENSIFIES OVER SECURITY LAPSES SURROUNDING THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOOTING

UVU students intermission to bespeak arsenic they regard implicit the spot wherever Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 17, 2025. (Matthew Finn/Fox News)

Harpole said Integrity coordinated with UVU for astir 2 weeks and relied connected field constabulary for rooftops and overwatch owed to jurisdictional limits. He said promised sum wasn’t successful place.

"This was a textbook illustration of what happens erstwhile lines of authorization aren’t clear," helium said. "We couldn’t enactment extracurricular our jurisdiction, and the radical who could didn’t."

He added that Integrity’s 12-member item "built concentric zones, treble presidential-style barricades, and utilized vehicles arsenic hard barriers down the stage," but those measures couldn’t compensate for gaps successful constabulary coverage.

The Utah Department of Public Safety confirmed that its State Bureau of Investigation is starring the transgression enquiry alongside the Utah County Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors person charged Tyler James Robinson, 22, with superior execution successful transportation with the shooting and mean to question the decease penalty.

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Tyler Robinson, left, is the fishy successful the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk. Kirk is pictured during an lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University, wherever helium was changeable and killed connected Sept. 10, 2025.  (Utah State Courts/Handout, Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via Reuters.)

UVU officials person said an interior reappraisal of the shooting and information procedures is ongoing.

"The broad and autarkic third-party investigation volition beryllium made nationalist erstwhile implicit and volition supply invaluable insights into improving information and information connected assemblage campuses," the assemblage said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital by a steadfast representing UVU. "UVU is committed to integrating these findings into its information protocols to payment UVU and the broader Utah higher acquisition assemblage and field events."

The assemblage besides emphasized the relation of its constabulary officers and caller information investments.

"University constabulary officers play a captious relation successful maintaining a safe, unafraid and welcoming situation by enforcing local, authorities and national laws portion upholding the university’s values of respect, integrity and inclusion," the connection continued. "Officers support students, employees, visitors and property, and instrumentality a proactive attack to transgression prevention, acquisition and assemblage engagement."

First responders enactment the country wherever Charlie Kirk was changeable during an lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected September 10, 2025 successful Orem, Utah.  (George Frey)

UVU said it is presently hiring 8 further constabulary officers and 2 caller information managers to fortify oversight and enactment for field events.

Harpole said his determination to talk publically was astir ensuring lessons are learned from what happened astatine Utah Valley.

"Just amusement the facts," helium said. "If mistakes were made, hole them truthful it ne'er happens again."

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UVU officials said their ongoing third-party reappraisal volition usher caller information policies and staffing expansions aimed astatine strengthening field lawsuit information crossed Utah’s higher-education system.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Turning Point USA and Integrity Security Solutions for comment.

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