Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, wants to have cameras in the courtroom during the murder trial of her husband’s accused assassin.
“There were cameras all over my husband when he was murdered,” Ms. Kirk said in a “Jesse Watters Primetime” interview that will air in full on Wednesday. “There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning. There have been cameras all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile, my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there.”
The conservative activist was gunned down in September at a Turning Point USA rally at Utah Valley University in Orem. Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of firing a single shot from a rooftop, striking Charlie Kirk in the neck.
Mr. Robinson faces an aggravated murder charge, among others, and Utah is seeking the death penalty. He has not entered a plea yet.
The suspect has not appeared in court in person and did not show his face during the past two virtual public hearings.
At Mr. Robinson’s last hearing, Judge Tony Graf told lawyers to submit new briefs and a new motion regarding cameras in court. Ms. Kirk is calling for the judge to reject a motion to curtail news cameras from the courtroom.
Robinson is due back in court in January, his expected first in-person appearance.
“Let everyone see what true evil is,” Ms. Kirk told Watters. “This is something that could impact a generation and generations to come.”
Charlie Kirk’s killing generated debate about political discourse, with a Senate hearing last week delving into political violence, specifically from the left wing.
“This is the nature of political violence in America today,” said Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Eric Schmitt, Missouri Republican. “It’s driven by a system far larger than the people who commit the act itself.”
