Two days before Charlie Kirk was set to speak at Utah Valley University , the head of his contracted security team texted the school’s police chief. He was worried.

The student group that invited Kirk had told Brian Harpole that it was aware some of the campus’ rooftops were easily accessible — and some of those roofs were on buildings that looked down on the open courtyard where Kirk was going to speak. Harpole, who was a police officer before starting his own private security company, knew that posed a serious risk.

He asked UVU police Chief Jeff Long if the school could have officers patrol that — or allow Harpole to assign “one of my guys to be there as well.”

The chief allegedly responded: “I got you covered.”

Harpole held up his phone to show the text exchange during an int

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