Posted on 04/20/2023 4:02:29 PM PDT by LouAvul
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TND) — Andrew Lester, 84, is accused of shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl after the Black teenager appeared at the front door of the older man's Kansas City, Missouri home.
It's a story that has gripped the nation, especially now that similar shootings have occurred, including one involving the killing of a 20-year-old woman in New York who was shot after pulling into a 65-year-old man's driveway. The cases have also reignited the ever-ongoing debate over gun control in the United States.
Now, a member of Lester's family, his grandson, is offering up information on the 84-year-old shooting suspect, telling CNN that his grandfather believed in "crazy" conservative conspiracy theories and often made "racist comments."
I believe he holds racist tendencies and beliefs," Klint Ludwig, 28, said of his grandfather, Lester. "A lot of it was like the QAnon-level conspiracies of election denying and he got really weird about some Fauci dogs... And I would push back on some of that stuff and he couldn’t handle being pushed back on and at a certain point we kind of lost touch and I think it was more his choice than mine."
Ludwig added that Lester often made disparaging comments about Black people, LGBT people and immigrants. Lester was also the owner of a large number of firearms, which he kept in his home, according to Ludwig.
When CNN's Don Lemon asked Ludwig why he thought his grandfather held racist beliefs, the 28-year-old said that Lester was "just a stock American Christian male" and "that’s just how they are."
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How come all these cases are coming up now? They are publicizing every time some jerk shoots a trespasser or someone he thinks is a threat because they want take people’s guns.
Ludwig is a German name.
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So what's he an all stock of?
Grandson is a POS...
Klint has got to be a Klantifag brownshirt. What a punk-ass.
Ooh, new territory to cover. Why hasn’t anyone ever thought of that before?
His last FB post was “ F*** this country,”...blah, blah, blah. LGBTF rights BS. About 15 months ago.
People wonder how Lenin or Stalin or Hitler or Mao or Pol Pot can come to power. It starts with the kids. Always.
Biracial.
“Turns out that the corn-rowed Grandson is also a proud Satanist.”
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I just saw that information. There is a Twitchy thread with his satanic tweet screen-shots included. He is not getting a lot of love from people as they see him for what he is.
Actually good for Don Lemonade for asking the “why racist” question.
the grandson is a straight up bigot
Do you know what PM is? Use it.
Yes, let’s!
No thanks.
Then get lost. You were able to read the first post and ignored what it said. Did you expect an answer? Seek counseling.
Oh look… it’s an AntiFa soyboy
Alec Baldwin is getting charges dropped. They discovered they were not his pants!
Yes. I read you think your opinions would draw millions and generate billions in revenue.
You sound insane.
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