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First man arrested after Charlie Kirk assassination enters guilty plea on child sex crimes
KUTV ^ | Derik Fox

Posted on 01/29/2026 12:00:05 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys

PROVO, Utah (KUTV) — The first man to be taken into custody in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination at Utah Valley University in September entered a guilty plea earlier this week. George Hodgson Zinn, 71, pleaded guilty to third-degree felony obstruction of justice and two counts of second-degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: assassination; banglist; charlie; charliekirk; childabuse; children; crime; isitthemyogi; kirk; themagain; utah; uvu

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1 posted on 01/29/2026 12:00:05 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys
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To: LiberalismDestroys

this is the guy the locals there said was a long-time troublemaker.


2 posted on 01/29/2026 12:04:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: LiberalismDestroys

So it’s confirmed: he’s a Democrat.


3 posted on 01/29/2026 12:05:41 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Put him in the general population and he won’t be around long.


4 posted on 01/29/2026 12:09:05 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Jamestown1630

He was clearly a paid, usually Dem, agitator, who was no doubt paid for this. IMO quite possible whatever found to lead to these charges was planted there to shut him up. (Or, maybe they just knew they had this on him all the time.)


5 posted on 01/29/2026 12:09:40 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

I think I remember him being described at the time as some kind of neighborhood crank.


6 posted on 01/29/2026 12:11:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

IMO his performance at the Kirk event was no coinky-dink:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/10/george-zinn-what-we-know-about-man/


7 posted on 01/29/2026 12:14:21 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Jamestown1630

He was a crank, as many of Dems are.
And his actions were deliberate. He tried to help the shooter.
He tried to give the shooter a time to escape.
That’s obstruction of justice.
Guilty, after all.


8 posted on 01/29/2026 12:16:05 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Any relation to the America-hating Marxist propagandist Howard Zinn?


9 posted on 01/29/2026 12:18:25 PM PST by montag813
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To: AZJeep

But didn’t they let him go after that?

This from the article is what I recall:

“Zinn is known for showing up — and occasionally disrupting or being arrested at — events ranging from political speeches to the Sundance Film Festival to various protests.”


10 posted on 01/29/2026 12:18:37 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Well, looks like he will not be disrupting anything for a long while!


11 posted on 01/29/2026 12:42:45 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: 9YearLurker

Yeah. Where the heck is the IRS? I can’t even fart loudly without some IRS goon shaking me down and demanding my books.


12 posted on 01/29/2026 1:18:32 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: LiberalismDestroys
I grabbed this image from a news feed concerning the Kirk shooting on 9/10/25. It seemed to show a University or local policeman holding THE Kirk shooter's rifle (Note: it apparently has a suppressor), but it's clearly not the Mauser 30-06 seen elsewhere.

OK, who's rifle is it, what was it doing there, and why haven't we heard any more about this?


13 posted on 01/29/2026 2:47:59 PM PST by rx
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