Posted on 09/12/2025 2:49:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A bionic arm, a chicken coop and three botched arrests.
As Kash Patel's reputation as FBI chief hung in the balance following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the alleged assassin's father turned him.
Donald Trump on Friday announced that the suspect was finally in custody - 44 hours after the fatal shot that killed Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
A bionic arm, chicken coops and the wrong men: The wild 44-hour search that almost turned Kash Patel into a laughingstock
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By JOE HUTCHISON, US NEWS REPORTER
Published: 15:12 EDT, 12 September 2025 | Updated: 17:08 EDT, 12 September 2025
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A bionic arm, a chicken coop and three botched arrests.
As Kash Patel's reputation as FBI chief hung in the balance following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the alleged assassin's father turned him.
Donald Trump on Friday announced that the suspect was finally in custody - 44 hours after the fatal shot that killed Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
In the immediate hours after the carnage, law enforcement went after a man with a bionic arm, chaotic radio chatter has revealed. Suspects with bionic or prosthetic arms were plot threads in both David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the 1993 film The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford.
Law enforcement also honed in on a man in a suit, another person who was going to hospitals looking for Kirk, and another who removed an anti-Kirk online post.
The cops got off to such a slow start that they also resorted to raiding chicken coops as their hunt for the suspect turned both frantic and fruitless.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Geeze what a crock of nonsense.
I was thinking that what the FBI did, in this case, was capture the perp - alive.
No dead family. No “I’m going to kill myself”, standoff.
Patel may have played it right.
BTW there is no such thing as a “bionic arm”. The Six Million Dollar Man has not been adjusted for inflation.
Several weeks, IIRC ... with all of us looking for disgruntled White men in a whit box truck. Because that bastard Moose LIED TO US.
Turned out to be a pair of queer blacks in a beat up dark blue Chevy ... who got caught because TRUCKERS were finally aware of what to look for.
Boy, the Daily Mail is outdoing itself to make as much hay from Charlie’s death as possible! Ghouls.
THAT’s not what bothered me. Leading up to the dastardly dead, seemingly everyone and his dog saw a person up on the roof of an adjacent building, and did NOTHING about it!
At what point after the shooting did the FBI take over the investigation? Did they have anything to do with the detainment of the first 2 suspects?
I’m not going to read this garbage - just clicked in order to say so.
Yeah...discovered by a guy that noticed his boat cover was unsnapped, as I recall.
LOL, kitty
You’ve got nothing?
Ok, noted.
If the FBI hadn’t had all the surveillance video put out there, do you think the father of the murderer would have thought to turn in his son? He himself said he recognized his son from the video. Solving crime often requires cooperation from the public. The FBI was looking for a needle in a haystack. I suppose you also will say the video they obtained just happened to reveal itself. I get it; you don’t like Kash Patel. But how about you leave all the cannibalism to the MSM, and let’s stop eating our own?
I have not been at all impressed with Kash. Not at all.
Me too. People attacked me for calling H1B Patel incompetent.
Exactly.
I do t like the FBI, I don’t trust the FBI, I don’t think I’d ever even talk to the FBI, but I don’t see a problem here with the investigation or the time it took and I believe even if his father tried to protect him the FBI would have nailed him sooner rather than later.
Boy howdy.
The article seems to “blame” the FBI everytime a local police officer looked somewhere and didn’t find the killer or his weapon.
They gathered the photos, enhanced them, and got them out so that the father could recognize his son.
Stop watching TV shows or movies about cops ... You might actually believe crimes all get solved within a few hours don’t ya?
Too bad the real world doesn’t behave according to your fantasies.
If you wait just a short while the Daily Mail will top themselves.
Sad thing is, a lot of people around the world see only leftist trash media, and they believe nonsense about America and conservatives.
Of course that includes they watch the moonbats on CNN.
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