The FBI’s response to the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah has underscored the dramatic changes to the nation’s premier law enforcement agency under Donald Trump, whose administration has purged agents and moved officers away from fighting crime to arresting immigrants.
A federal investigation into Kirk’s assassination marks one of the first major tests for FBI Director Kash Patel following Trump’s transformation of the agency into a tool for his political agenda, focusing on investigations into the president’s rivals, street crime and enforcing an anti-immigration agenda.
