TMZ's Charlie Kirk Shooting Footage and the Newsroom Controversy It Sparked

Showing 24 TMZ videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

TMZ broke wall-to-wall coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination, and its own newsroom quickly became part of the story. Employees at TMZ's offices were seen on the outlet's live stream appearing to cheer at the moment the shooting was announced; founder Harvey Levin said the reaction was actually to an unrelated car chase playing on a different screen, though critics pointed out the timing lined up with the shooting announcement, not the chase. TMZ's raw video from the scene, including footage of two men moving Kirk's chair and removing a nearby camera minutes after the shooting, became the starting point for a wave of independent investigators picking through the same clips frame by frame. George Webb has argued that inconsistencies in how a man connected to the scene moved past TMZ and doorbell cameras point to a staged diversion. Candace Owens has used the same footage, alongside her own outside sourcing, to argue federal involvement and to question why the camera near Kirk was taken down so quickly. Both treat TMZ's footage as the closest thing to a primary visual record of the minutes surrounding the shooting, which is why so many competing theories keep circling back to the same handful of clips.