FROM DAILY MAIL: A veteran lawman has confirmed the curious hand gestures seen in a video of Charlie Kirk’s bodyguards just before the conservative firebrand was gunned down in Utah were security signals.
Footage circulating online shows two members of Kirk’s modest detail standing behind him as he addressed a crowd of 3,000 at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
One appeared to adjust his cap while holding a phone, while another shifted his arms and cast glances across the courtyard.
Moments later, Kirk, 31, a rising star of the conservative movement and close ally of Donald Trump , was struck in the neck by a single rifle round apparently fired from a rooftop some 200 yards away.
Social media users spotted the signals, sharing the clips along with wild suggestions. Stan Kephart, a former California police chief who has advised on security measures for events as large as the Olympic Games, agreed that the movements were deliberate, but says they aren’t unusual in the situation.
“I can tell you from experience — those were definitely hand signals. The way they were done was not casual. It was more than one signal,” said Kephart.
“My suspicion is that he’s checking off with somebody else, perhaps a supervisor, saying everything is okay,” he added. “It doesn’t arouse my suspicions. If he wasn’t okay, or if he had something to say, he would have reverted not to hand signals, but to his communication system.”
At a press conference on Friday, September 12, Utah Governor Spencer Cox stated that officials believe suspect Tyler Robinson acted alone in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Governor Cox said that at this time, authorities have no information pointing to any additional arrests.
While two other individuals were briefly questioned on the day of the shooting, they were subsequently released after police determined they were not involved.
The investigation is ongoing.
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