The FBI Rooftop "Photo Op"
FBI and law-enforcement personnel on a UVU rooftop walkway. Source: @PBOnPoint on X, September 27, 2026.
One photograph from the days after the September 10, 2025 shooting keeps coming back on X: a line of federal and law-enforcement personnel walking the edge of a rooftop at Utah Valley University, under the curved roof of a campus building, with one agent in a navy FBI windbreaker. Citizen investigators re-share it as a staged "photo op" — a picture made for the cameras rather than a working scene visit.
What @PBOnPoint Posted
On September 27, 2026, according to the X account @PBOnPoint (PB), who re-posted the image:
Remember this BS Photo Op? Two of the biggest offenders and liars in FBI history. They knew all about it.
#truecrime
The post does not name the two people it means. Readers on X generally read it as a reference to the Bureau's top leadership of the time, Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino. That reading is the poster's audience's, not a caption on the photo, and this page does not identify anyone in the image by face.
What The Photo Shows
- About a dozen men walking a concrete rooftop walkway, low sun from the left, a guardrail in the foreground.
- One man in a navy windbreaker with FBI in yellow letters, wearing sunglasses.
- A man at the front in a white open-collar shirt and dark jacket, with others in plain clothes, tactical pants and sunglasses behind him.
- To the left, two men in suits and a younger person in a cap and tactical pants holding a manila envelope, with a holstered sidearm.
- No evidence markers, tape, cameras on tripods or forensic kits are visible in the frame.
Why Citizen Investigators Call It A Photo Op
The "photo op" framing rests on the rest of the FBI record as citizen investigators read it, not on anything the picture alone proves:
- The Bureau's public messaging — Kash Patel's briefings, the "33-hour manhunt," and the enhanced suspect photos released after Tyler Robinson was reportedly already in custody — is argued to have been managed for the public.
- The phrase "they knew all about it" echoes the recurring claim that senior officials knew far more, and far earlier, than they said — see the Official Narrative and Foreign Leads Blocked pages.
- Within days the crime scene was paved, which critics set against a leadership walk-through staged in front of photographers.
Open Questions
- When exactly was this photo taken, and by whom? A date and photographer would settle which officials were present.
- Which rooftop is it, and was it part of the scene the FBI processed?
- What was in the envelope, and was anything collected during this walk-through?
The Other Side
The FBI has not responded to this post. Senior officials visiting a major crime scene is routine, and news photographers commonly photograph such visits; a walk-through can be both a genuine briefing and a public-facing moment. Calling officials "liars" is the poster's opinion. Nothing on this page asserts that any person in the image committed a crime or knew of the attack in advance.