Posted on 09/11/2025 9:29:29 AM PDT by DFG
An elderly man arrested during the chaotic aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination has been identified as Utah political activist George Zinn.
The 71-year-old Utah resident was initially suspected of being the shooter as he was taken into custody moments after Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley College on Wednesday.
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Separate footage showed Zinn barking back at the crowd to 'shoot me', and a cop at the scene was heard saying 'he said he shot him, but I don't know', per the Salt Lake Tribune.
After it became clear that Zinn was not the gunman who killed Kirk, he was identified by Utah residents as a well-known political activist with a number of small-time arrests to his name.
He is known to frequently show up at protests and demonstrations in the state, and Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told the Tribune that his office has prosecuted Zinn numerous times dating back to the 1980s.
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The District Attorney said he was aware of Zinn from years of political protests in Utah, as at 'almost every political event you can think of, there was always George somewhere in the background, listening'.
'He’s a person who can be odd, and has those kinds of odd behavior challenges,' Gill said, adding that 'by and large, he’s more of a gadfly than anything else'.
Gill said that his office had tried to get Zinn into mental health court for past misdemeanor charges, but he 'never really participated in that'.
Zinn's most serious arrest came in 2013, when he was charged with threatening to plant bombs at the finish line of the Salt Lake City Marathon.
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Dude was a decoy.
What do you know, George?
You know ... he was ... kind of ... on the radar.
How about that.
Yep!
A decoy
He sure got their attention while someone else could get away.
Lawfare the hell out of the pos.
Done hearing about “odd behavior” from the Leftist cult. It time for criminal conduct to be treated as such. This is not a “Free Speech” issue. This is domestic terrorism.
This guy can’t be allowed to go home. Because as others have commented, he well could have been a decoy.
At a minimum, arrest him for interfering with a police investigation. If that’s not a federal crime, find a federal crime.
How does this 37 year-ago, hearsay event even remotely "link him to the White House?"
The Daily Mail is mostly garbage. I swear they are trying to contribute to the misdirection.
Enhanced interrogation...
In retrospect, I think I used to be very unfair to Pinochet…
Is this goofball related to Howard Zinn in any way?
Any relation to Howard Zinn, who wrote the neo-marxist “People’s History of the United States,” which is kind of a bible for American-hating liberals and socialists?
He sure put on a good show.
There was an older guy wearing a white 47 hat who mentioned him by name saying he wasn’t the shooter. Everything I’ve read about him is he’s a local nut with a like for politics but to the point he’s been banned or had restraining orders against him.
Perhaps, but you'd be pleasantly surprised how pro Trump/anti left a good number of the reader comments are.
Let me guess, covering for his grandson maybe?
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