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27 Dec 2025
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The Evidence They Don't Want You to See: A Forensic Breakdown of the Charlie Kirk Incident

By Joshua Michael

I've been going through the video footage of what happened to Charlie Kirk frame by frame. And I need to tell you something that mainstream media refuses to touch.

The official story doesn't match the forensic evidence.

When I first started examining this, I thought I was looking at a standard assassination. Rifle shot from distance. Tragic but straightforward. Then I slowed down the footage and saw something that stopped me cold.

The shirt moves before the neck wound appears.

The Timeline That Breaks the Official Narrative

I reached out to John Aaron Bray, a body armor and ballistics specialist, because what I was seeing didn't add up. When a rifle round hits you, the impact happens first. The kinetic energy transfers into the body at the point of contact. Physics 101.

But here's what the video shows: Charlie's shirt ripples and moves outward from the chest area two to three frames before you see any visible trauma to the neck region.

That's backwards.

John confirmed what I suspected. In every ballistic impact study he's reviewed, you see a compression wave at the entry point, then the body moves away from the impact. The fabric gets torn or pushed inward at the impact site first. Then you see secondary movement as the body reacts.

What we're seeing here is the opposite. The shirt moves like something underneath it is expanding or detonating outward. Then the neck wound appears.

That's the signature of an explosive device.

Optical Flow Mapping Reveals What Your Eyes Miss

John ran optical flow mapping on the footage. This technique visualizes movement and energy distribution across frames. It's how you catch things the human eye misses in real-time viewing.

The results were clear. The energy wasn't radiating from a single point of entry like you'd see with a bullet. It was emanating from the chest area in a pattern consistent with a contained explosion.

In ballistic impacts, you see compression at entry, then the body moves away. Here, the movement pushes outward from the inside. John compared this footage to known shaped charge detonations.

The match was undeniable.

The way the fabric moved. The timing of the neck wound appearing after the initial distortion. The lack of a visible projectile entry point. All of it matched explosive characteristics, not ballistic ones.

The Lebanon Pager Precedent: This Technology Already Exists

Some of you are thinking this sounds like science fiction. It's not.

In 2024, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives detonated simultaneously across Lebanon. These weren't malfunctions. These were devices that had been intercepted in the supply chain and had small shaped charges installed in the battery compartments.

When they were remotely triggered, they exploded with enough force to kill or severely injure the person holding them.

The technology exists. It's been deployed. It's been proven effective.

If they can put a shaped charge in a pager battery, they can put one in a microphone or a wireless transmitter pack. The Lebanon attacks proved these devices can be small enough to go undetected, powerful enough to cause lethal trauma, and sophisticated enough to be remotely detonated at a specific moment.

This isn't theoretical. This is documented, operational technology that's already been used in targeted assassinations.

Wound Characteristics That Don't Match Rifle Fire

Look at the actual injury pattern. When you examine a typical rifle wound from the distance and angle they're claiming, you expect to see specific characteristics.

Clear entry wound. Cavitation. Tissue tearing in a linear pattern. An exit wound if the round passed through.

That's not what we're seeing.

The neck wound appears almost circular, with tissue damage that radiates outward from a central point. There's significant trauma to the surrounding area consistent with a pressure wave, not a projectile path.

John pointed out that a shaped charge is designed to focus explosive energy in a specific direction. When it detonates, it creates a penetrating jet of superheated gas and metal particles. To the untrained eye, it can look like a gunshot wound.

But the key difference is the surrounding tissue damage.

With a rifle round, you get a relatively clean channel. With a shaped charge, you get peripheral trauma from the pressure wave and thermal effects. We're seeing burns. We're seeing tissue disruption that extends beyond what a single projectile would cause.

Combat veterans who know rifle wounds firsthand have looked at this footage. They're seeing the same discrepancies.

The Decorticate Posturing Response

Here's something most people missed because they don't know what to look for.

Immediately after the impact, Charlie's arms go rigid and his hands curl inward toward his chest. This is called decorticate posturing. It's a very specific neurological response that tells you the brain stem has been severely traumatized.

This isn't voluntary movement. This is the brain stem shutting down and the body going into a primitive reflex mode.

A bullet wound to the neck wouldn't necessarily cause immediate decorticate posturing unless it directly severed the spinal cord or caused catastrophic bleeding into the brain stem. And even then, you'd expect a delayed response as pressure builds.

What we're seeing is instantaneous posturing. That suggests whatever hit him caused immediate, massive trauma to the brain stem region.

That's consistent with a pressure wave from an explosion.

When a shaped charge detonates near the chest and directs energy upward, the pressure wave travels through tissue and bone. If that charge was positioned to direct force toward the base of the skull, it would cause immediate brain stem trauma.

The instant decorticate posturing we're seeing tells you the mechanism of injury delivered massive energy to the brain stem in a fraction of a second.

Audio Discrepancies They're Trying to Bury

Listen to the recordings from multiple camera angles. You don't hear the sharp, distinctive crack of a rifle shot that you'd expect from a high-powered rifle at distance.

What you hear is more of a muffled thump or pop. Almost like something contained detonating rather than a supersonic projectile breaking the sound barrier.

A rifle shot produces two distinct sounds: the muzzle blast from the gun and the supersonic crack as the bullet passes through the air.

We're not hearing that.

What we're hearing sounds like a small, contained explosion. Exactly what you'd expect from a shaped charge inside a device.

And here's what really bothers me. There are reports of audio being scrubbed or edited in some of the official releases. Certain camera feeds have audio that doesn't sync up with others. Some of the clearest angles have had their audio tracks either removed or replaced.

Why would you do that if the audio supported the rifle theory?

You wouldn't. You'd want that evidence front and center.

But if the audio reveals something that contradicts the narrative, like the absence of a rifle crack or the presence of a different type of detonation sound, then suddenly you've got a reason to suppress it.

Information Warfare in Real Time

Watch what evidence gets pushed and what gets buried.

Front and center: The lone gunman narrative. The distant shooter theory. Eyewitness accounts that support the rifle story. Endless speculation about security failures that keep everyone focused on "how did someone get a shot off" rather than "what actually caused the injury."

They're flooding the zone with that narrative, repeating it across every mainstream outlet until it becomes accepted truth.

Meanwhile, what's being buried?

The multi-angle video footage showing shirt movement before the neck wound. The audio discrepancies. Any analysis that questions the ballistic timeline. Expert analysis from people like John Aaron Bray who have the technical knowledge to challenge the official story.

You won't see his optical flow mapping on CNN. You won't see forensic breakdowns that highlight the explosive signature.

Instead, you get emotional appeals. You get political spin. And you get anyone who questions the narrative labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

That's how information warfare works.

You control the evidence people see. You control the experts they hear from. You control the acceptable range of discussion. Anything outside that range gets memory-holed or attacked.

The fact that they're working this hard to suppress contradictory evidence tells me they know the official story doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

The AES Tennessee Connection

Here's something that should raise every red flag you have.

Shortly after this incident, the AES Tennessee plant went up in flames. That plant reportedly manufactured electronic components.

Right when people are starting to ask questions about concealed explosives in electronic devices, a facility that makes those components burns down.

That's not a coincidence. That's evidence destruction.

What This Means for American Security

If micro-shaped charges can be concealed in common electronic devices and remotely detonated, we're looking at a fundamental shift in assassination methodology.

Traditional security measures become less effective. Metal detectors won't catch explosives integrated into battery compartments. Visual inspections won't reveal devices that look identical to legitimate equipment.

The Lebanon pager attacks proved the supply chain can be infiltrated. Devices can be modified without detection. And when they're triggered, they cause lethal trauma that can be designed to mimic conventional weapons.

Traditional autopsy procedures may be inadequate for detecting sophisticated explosive attacks designed to mimic gunshot wounds. If the forensic examiner is looking for ballistic evidence and the wound characteristics have been engineered to appear ballistic, critical evidence gets missed.

We also need to talk about eyewitness reliability. In high-stress events, people see what they expect to see. If everyone assumes it's a rifle shot because that's the most common assassination method, eyewitness accounts will conform to that expectation even if the actual mechanism was different.

The Questions We Need to Ask

Why does the shirt movement precede the neck wound in the video footage?

Why does the optical flow mapping show energy emanating from the chest area rather than a single point of ballistic impact?

Why do the wound characteristics show peripheral trauma consistent with pressure waves rather than a clean projectile channel?

Why did Charlie exhibit instant decorticate posturing consistent with immediate brain stem trauma from an explosion rather than delayed response from a gunshot?

Why don't the audio recordings contain the distinctive supersonic crack of a rifle shot?

Why has audio been scrubbed or edited from some camera angles?

Why did the AES Tennessee plant burn down shortly after this incident?

These aren't conspiracy theories. These are forensic questions based on video evidence, expert analysis, and documented technology that's already been used in targeted killings.

The Bigger Picture

Charlie Kirk was 31 years old. He founded Turning Point USA at 18. He built a movement that reached millions of young Americans. He could sway swing states by 10 points. He would have been old enough to run for president in 2028.

He questioned the establishment. He gave a platform to voices the mainstream wanted silenced. He fought against college indoctrination. He broke people out of the woke mind virus.

He was a threat to the system.

And now he's gone.

The official story is convenient. A lone gunman. A security failure. Move along, nothing to see here.

But the forensic evidence tells a different story. And they're working overtime to make sure you never hear it.

I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm asking you to look at the evidence yourself. Watch the footage frame by frame. Listen to the audio from multiple angles. Ask why the timeline doesn't match conventional ballistics.

Ask why they're suppressing expert analysis that contradicts the narrative.

The truth is in the details they don't want you to examine.

And if we don't demand answers now, this playbook will be used again.

Stay vigilant. Question everything. And don't let them memory-hole the evidence that exposes their lies.

This is Joshua Michael, Noncompliant America. The truth doesn't need your permission to exist. It just needs you to have the courage to look at it.

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