"The footage itself is now exceedingly problematic": Candace Owens raises new doubts over Tyler Robinson footage in Charlie Kirk case

Candace Owens has opened another line of questioning in the Charlie Kirk murder case, this time focusing on footage from a 2022 car crash involving Tyler Robinson. A viral social media post has drawn attention to her latest remarks, in which she questions why the recording surfaced after Robinson became a suspect. Her comments followed YouTuber Zach Costello's observation about Robinson's body language in the video.Candace Owens questions Tyler Robinson’s 2022 crash footageOwens said Costello's analysis prompted her to look beyond the similarities in Robinson's movements and question how the footage reached the public. She suggested that its timing deserved scrutiny, although she did not provide evidence of a coordinated effort to release it."Moving on from that, I have a random bee in my bonnet today. I need your help, internet. It's bothering me tremendously.I can't let it go suddenly. Actually, credit to YouTuber Zach Costello for putting this bee in my bonnet, even though he didn't mean to. Basically, what happened was he was looking at the footage that we released of Tyler Robinson, in the American shirt, walking onto UVU campus.He was addressing how he had his fingers in his pockets and the way that he was particularly holding his fingers in his pockets. In Zach Costello's mind, he said, that's super interesting because that makes me think of that 2022 arrest of Tyler Robinson. He also had his fingers in the pocket that way.But of course, my crazy brain, instead of hearing what Zach Costello is saying, which is like, this could be Tyler Robinson, I went, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. Why the heck did we ever see that footage? Let me back this up for you.The footage itself is now exceedingly problematic. Why and who collected and stored this footage? We can now watch a little clip of it, just so you can see what we're referring to, because I don't think we actually ever talked about it on this show."Owens then played a clip of an officer speaking with a driver after a collision. The exchange appears routine, with the driver explaining how the crash happened. Owens questioned why the recording remained available years later."Who's the driver? You're the driver? Yep.Can you tell me just really quick what happened?I was coming this way and he was just passing through and he pulled out from here or no, from there, I think.Do you remember which lane you were in?I was in one of those two lanes going this way, I think in the right.Yeah. In the right most lane coming this way. Okay. And he would have been there going left.And as I was coming through, he turned in and I T-boned into the side.Okay.Mundane.I'm going to keep asking this. Who requested and stored this footage for three years and then submitted it to Scripps News? Who in Utah was like, I happen to have this footage from 2022 that I've been holding on to of this random, unknown 19-year-old Tyler Robinson, and I'm choosing to release it to a publication that no one has ever heard of."Candace Owens connects footage release to wider Charlie Kirk case questionsOwens compared the footage's release to what she described as the repeated use of maroon shirts in coverage of Robinson. She also questioned whether the similarities in his clothing were meant to shape public perception. These suggestions remain her claims, not established findings."Because you want to know what I think? I think this is like the maroon shirts. When I suddenly said, every news organization was showing us pictures of Tyler in a maroon shirt. And you would think that he always wore maroon shirts, but he didn't actually. He normally wore blue shirts.And it seems like they knew that some decoys were going to wear the maroon shirt and they wanted to immediately imprint upon the public's mind that Tyler just wore maroon every day. They didn't.I think this is similar. I think that they already knew they were going to release this to the public and they had trained this individual to mimic the way in which Tyler Robinson walks. I think that because the New York Post kind of said that, right? When they released the footage, they were basically like, wow, shocking footage emerges of Tyler Robinson. And he's wearing an eerily similar hat and sunglasses from the 2022 footage."Owens continued by challenging the circumstances surrounding the video's release and asking viewers to share information about its handling."Look, it's just unbelievable. This fender bender in Utah, sporting sunglasses and a hat that are eerily similar to what he was seen wearing while on the run after allegedly gunning down conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, three years later. Wow. How crazy that this footage emerged and he's in the same hat and sunglasses imprinting upon the public mind that this is our guy. That's my thought.I would like to know why footage that did not involve a crime was available on the ready a couple of days after we learned, seven days after we learned that Tyler Robinson was a suspect. How did scripts get that?If you have information as to how that took place, who held onto that footage, why they held onto that footage, which should have been deleted after 60 days in the state of Utah, which no one should have requested because no one should have known that it happened. Please reach out to us. We'd like to, we'd like to, it's, it's, it's a bee in my bonnet and my bonnets got to get to the bottom of it. It's more tips at Candace Owens.com."She closed by floating further possibilities without presenting evidence to support them."Thank you, Zach Castello for putting this bee in my bonnet. I know you were thinking a different route, but I'm always like that men in black scene where like, you know, I go after the girl. There's all these aliens and I, my brain just works different way. And now this has to be solved more tips at Candace Owens.com or you can email us at tips at Candace Owens.com.Maybe you work for scripts. Maybe, you know how they got this footage. Maybe you work for St. George, you know, who works for St. George and could have maybe held onto this footage. Maybe it's a whole blackmail thing. I don't know. They're in a gifted program and they're like, we got to anything we find about this. But I didn't Mike Mitchell. Wasn't he his mentor? Would he have maybe opened up to someone and said, Hey, I just got pulled over. I don't know. It's weird. It's all very weird. We'll be right back after a brief break."Owens' remarks add another layer to the online debate surrounding the case. However, questions about the footage's retention and release do not, by themselves, establish evidence of manipulation or a planned operation. Robinson remains accused of killing Kirk, and the criminal case must be distinguished from speculation circulating online.Catch the latest World News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.