Posted on 11/20/2025 7:01:37 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Two months after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University, his security director said the tragedy exposed preventable flaws in how the event was coordinated and secured.
Brian Harpole, a veteran law enforcement officer and founder of Integrity Security Solutions, told "The Shawn Ryan Show" his team repeatedly raised concerns about rooftop exposure, drone restrictions and staffing gaps in the days before the Sept. 10 event.
"We were told the roof was covered," Harpole said. "The chief said, ‘I got you covered.’ I took him at his word.
"We can’t break the law to do what needs to be done, so we relied on the police, and no one was up there."
Harpole said he had asked for additional security based on previous high-risk events. He recalled a Turning Point USA appearance in San Francisco where protesters breached barriers, and his team had to fight its way out with little law enforcement help.
Harpole said Integrity brought 12 contractors, nearly double its usual staffing, but jurisdictional limits confined them to about 30 meters around the stage.
"Our responsibility stopped at the bubble," he said. "We can’t make arrests or block student buildings. That’s law enforcement's job."
He said the Orem Police Department, which operates a drone and SWAT unit, was never asked to assist despite a mutual-aid agreement.
"They told us later they were never asked to come," Harpole said.
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No matter how competent any group of security personnel are, whether private security companies, local or state police, or federal agencies, they all have an institutional bias that does not like their efforts questioned; they all think they are doing a bang up job all the time.
Is there a paper trail for that? If not, why not? If so, has the chief been fired yet?
And this guy let it go at that - a massive failure on his part.
“You f’d up, you trusted us!”
Sad that it’s essentially the lessons from Butler going unlearned.
But Candace Owens already proved that Egyptian stewardesses killed Charlie on orders of Mossad agent Erika Kirk. Why is this guy covering it up?!?
We got the roof covered, No worries.
Perhaps my understanding is wrong.
Seemed like an ambiguous response to Team Kirk’s request to cover the roof IIRC (which I might not).
It looks like the security team's "bubble" was far too small. If there were additional conversations about security measures reaching out 100+ yards from that stage, you'd think they would be making sure everyone was aware of that.
Yup—the key to any management job is check, double check, triple check—take nothing for granted.
If the security is not adequate you stop the event until it is adequate.
No excuses.
No blaming.
That security guy comes across as Slim Shady. 🙄
My BS meter is pegging, but this is Candace we are talking about here, so I have to check in on this one.
Within the bubble, you have riflemen scanning rooftops.
Understand……..American will be forced to kill other Americans just so speech can be protected.
The left has a very violent underbelly……..because we allow it.
The guy who set the lady on fire……..arrested 71 times. Out on bail.
This guy should have been offed long ago.
Wow!
The guy didn’t do his job.
Thanks for the interview for this high paying security job.
Your welcome. Now tell me, have you lost anyone that you were paid a handsome salary to protect, before?
Ah, umm, well, not really MY fault.....
Have you ever held a PPO level 4?
From your last post I would say you never have or done any PSO work either.
Private sector contractors and state licenced PPO’s cannot do law enforcement period. They cannot fly drones without FAA and local LEO permits ,licences and permission. Contractors also cannot just breach buildings and go on rooftops especially state owned university buildings that is fully on campus LEO department to access and secure those restricted area’s. Most state’s also will not allow for private sector to have counter sniper teams at all it’s a huge liability again that falls to local SWAT or State level DPS type teams. Private sector security are inner bubble take a bullet sponges who for the most part even at PPO4 are unarmed except for the primary PSO and his two flankmen.
Yes I have held a PPO L4 and done not only private sector work I did military and federal level PSO ops for over a decade at that was SRT as well as a marksman observer and on the counter rifle teams. It’s where I honed my 1600 meter plus skill set.
I feel for the private team they had their hands tied by design btw again we live in a letitious society no one wants or will tolerate the kind of operator’s we use in outside the wire ops. It’s pistols at most, no SMGs ,no PDWs no M4s or 338 Lapua. You simply cannot have hardware like that as a civilian even in private sector work and certainly not on a college campus.
The other fact is you cannot stop a determined assassin if they are willing to die to compete their mission. The fact the shooter got away was secondary he was on a one way mission every assassin must assume that and as a PSO you train for that mindset and try to reduce risk but it is never eliminated.
Lots of LEO and institutional failure here but the private guys did the best with what they were ALLOWED to do.
I find no fault with the private guys who were “rank and file workers”.
I do find fault with the boss who was interviewed here.
Instead of checking to make sure that the local police met their commitments that day he assumed they had done so.
You know what they say about the word “assume”.
Lol.
The job of management is to check and make sure everybody is where they are supposed to be—including people not directly supervised by management.
There are no excuses.
You missed the critical bit where the Egyptians are actually Lizard People convincingly DISGUISED as stewardesses.
Oh, and another thing: that’s FLIGHT ATTENDANT to you. [hiss]
Are you in danger for criticizing Israel?
Charlie Kirk’s death has ignited a war, and the Israel lobby is worried
The battle over Charlie Kirk’s legacy continues with conservatives’ changing views on Israel at the heart of it. The Israel lobby is shaken, and polls suggest a political “earthquake” may be taking place
By Philip Weiss October 3, 2025
The battle for the legacy of Charlie Kirk continued this week with the publication of a long letter from the late evangelical activist to Benjamin Netanyahu last May. Kirk professes love for Israel and the Jewish people, then warns Netanyahu that Israel is getting “CRUSHED” on social media in the United States over charges of “apartheid” and “genocide” but suggests how an active p.r. campaign can undo those losses.
Israel advocates, including the financier Bill Ackman, pointed to the letter as evidence of the charismatic leader’s devotion to Israel. And not—as commentator Candace Owens and others have said– that Kirk was turning on Israel in recent months. The controversy is important because Kirk, who at 33 was killed during a speech in Utah September 10, led a youthful movement to help get Trump elected. If Israel loses Kirk’s base, it really is in crisis in the U.S. discourse.
Or as Kirk himself said in July: “I’ve been trying to tell them [Israel supporters], There’s an earthquake coming in this country on this issue and in the country, and they don’t believe me.” Kirk’s letter to Netanyahu only shows that he was souring on Israel. It warns that consumers of social media know that the U.S. gives billions to Israel but “they’re less aware of what we get in return.” It would have been nice if Israel had sent an airplane with a star of David on it full of aid to the U.S. after a hurricane, he says, and suggests the action team that Israel could put together here to counter its reputation for genocide.
The letter was surely circulated to donors. Kirk was dependent on donors to support his political organization, Turning Point USA. In statements last summer, Kirk was plainly anguished about the Israel issue. “I’m trying to find this new path,” Kirk said of his Israel views in a “focus group” on Israel he convened with young conservatives. “I love Israel… I saw where Jesus rose from the dead and he walked on water…” But he questioned American aid to Israel. “Also I’m an American, and I represent a generation that can’t afford anything.”
In that focus group, Kirk sounded many criticisms of Israel, though not always endorsing them: –Supporting Israel is not in the U.S. interest. We’ve spent hundreds of billions and Israel may have dragged the U.S. into the Iran conflict. Maybe the U.S. should “decouple” from Israel, Kirk ventured.
–The antisemitism charge against Israel critics has lost its meaning. “If you call everyone an antisemite, if they don’t take a puritanical view of the Netanyahu government, that’s bad for everybody,” Kirk said.
–The Israel lobby works against U.S. interests. “I’m told by some people that if I criticize AIPAC that’s antisemitic,” Kirk said, before speculating that AIPAC goes against American interests. “Do you think that AIPAC represents, I’m not saying I believe this, a sort of cutting in line in prioritization away from the American people… We vote, we’re citizens, but a separate group gets higher priority…”
–Israel is like other “broken” institutions. It keeps saying it has a “messaging problem,” when it is actually “doing something wrong,” Kirk said. –Kirk refused to cancel Tucker Carlson after Carlson’s attack on the Israel lobby and its wealthy Jewish supporters.
The last issue was particularly volatile. Last July Carlson gave a speech to a Kirk summit in Florida that smacked of antisemitic themes. Carlson said that rich financiers in Jeffrey Epstein’s “constellation” who care only about Israel are wrenching Americans away from their real concerns, such as the affordability crisis, and telling them to care about Iran. Carlson said that the career of Bill Ackman, the most important pro-Israel activist in the country right now, demonstrates that “useless” people end up with billions.
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