📢🚨 New independent UVU After-Action Report on the Charlie Kirk assassination (158 pages). Investigators say no UVU employee acted in bad faith. They do say security existed on paper but was not run as a tight, documented plan when it counted‼️
🚨Biggest takeaways‼️
• Policies were there. Implementation was not. No written Event Action Plan for a high-profile outdoor political event with protests, private security, uncertain crowd size and easy elevated vantage points.
• UVU let TPUSA drive key security calls — outdoor Fountain Courtyard and TPUSA’s own ticketing — even though the report says UVU should have kept control of venue, tickets, access and crowd numbers.
• Line-of-sight / rooftop risk was not formally assessed. No documented elevated-position review. A planned 11am face-to-face between Police Chief Long and TPUSA security on the Hall of Flags walkway never happened.
• After the shot: no immediate campus alert from the Incident Commander. Later alerts were late, mixed and used confusing “secure-in-place” language.
• Lots of cameras. Useful after the fact. Nobody was assigned to watch relevant feeds live, including rooftops and restricted areas.
• UVU had social-listening tools, not a real subject-focused intel/OSINT capability for a specific person of concern.
• Orem PD, UHP, FBI and others responded well. The gap was before the event: extra officers, tactical support and drone/aerial cover were not built into the plan.
• UVUPD: 13 sworn officers, too few for a campus this size. Police chief sits too low in the org chart. Report wants a senior campus-safety boss and a proper staffing/pay review.
• TPUSA security and local organisers did not sit for interviews with the review team.
Short version: not “no system.” A system that was not integrated, documented or executed for an outdoor high-profile speaker with private security and open rooftops.
And perhaps one of the most important points:
The investigators explicitly said they found no evidence that any UVU employee or agent acted in bad faith or with willful and wanton disregard for safety.
But they also identified multiple actions, omissions and institutional practices that need serious attention.
In short: the report doesn’t describe UVU as having no security system. It describes a system that existed on paper but was not sufficiently integrated, documented or executed when it mattered most.
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