"Fuzzy video footage of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer racing across a rooftop at Utah Valley University, dropping to the ground and sprinting away in the moments following the conservative activist's death on Wednesday, was taken from so far away that it could not possibly have revealed his identity. You started off with a clip that made him look like an ant, Donald Trump told Fox News in a Friday morning interview"
"But the value to FBI investigators of the public release of the video at about 8pm local time on Thursday night, along with a series of high-definition images of the suspect, was beyond measure. It set into motion a rapid series of events that ended just three hours later with the arrest of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who authorities say was identified by a close relative - believed to be his father, a veteran sheriff's deputy."
"The publication of the video was designed to get people's attention to the enhanced photographs that showed the person in much greater detail, Andrew McCabe, the FBI's former deputy director, told CNN. It was that release that put the crowd sourcing and the public identification of this guy into high gear. It paid dividends, he said. Patel gave a timeline of developments at the Friday briefing, after flying to Orem, Utah, the day before with his deputy, the former conservative podcaster Dan Bongino."
Fuzzy rooftop footage from Utah Valley University showed an indistinct figure sprinting away after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. President Donald Trump criticized an initial clip as too distant to reveal identity, while the FBI released the distant video and high-definition images on Thursday evening. The imagery prompted rapid crowdsourcing that led to the arrest of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson about three hours later after a close relative, reportedly his father, confronted him and a family friend turned him in. Former and current law-enforcement figures said the public release accelerated an investigation that had experienced early missteps and premature announcements by the FBI director.
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