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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Indeed. How the worm turns.
Trans & Qtards killing folks.
Whatever do we do now?
But we ALL have a RIGHT to a Gun.
Blind assumptions do not bolster the notion of blind justice.
That ungrateful punk grandson would be out of my will immediately.
You don’t even know anything about me and you’re insulting me? That is not very wise.
It’s not about opinions. It’s about FACTS. The grandson that dissed his grandpa is completely wrong about Christians being racist. I could make him look like a fool in less than five minutes.
The grandson in question. Of course stock American Christian men are racist. Of course.
Racist woke hypocrite wigger, him.
I’ve known many racist Christians.
Yeah 👍👍
Yep
Animal cruelty
Well, good for you. Why don’t you pass through the Austin area and let me buy you lunch. Then, you can see who I am and get some details.
Nothing racist about being apprehensive when a total stranger shows up at your door and starts pushing their way in. Nor would it be any different if the random stranger was white or Oriental or hispanic or native American or Samoan or ... an alien from outer space.
Just don’t want strangers pushing past my front door. And it seems that this story has been “whitewashed” to avoid mention of that part which I clearly recall reading a few days ago.
Makes a big difference. Let’s say the young guy knocks, you call through the door, he says he’s here to pick up some people, you say there’s no people here, so at that point, he should go away. If he decides “this old dude has no clue” not even thinking “why is there an old white dude here?” and pushes in (door should be locked though), then he’s trespassing with unknown and possibly hostile intent.
I think we should help out this old fella with his side of the court case. At the very least, being that old is a mitigating factor. At some point you are bound to become more apprehensive about strangers on your property.
His grandson have a man bun or a coexist sticker on his Subaru? His grandson needs to STFU.
OK...regardless of how respectable,or evil,the shooter might be we have no doubt that the grandson is a piece of excrement.
Mark 13:12 King James Version (KJV)
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
No thanks. I’m done traveling, especially to people that appear to be unstable.
Yep, just as expected. The same thing happened during the cultural revolution in Mao’s China.
lol
“That’s just how they are”.
He’s a gay hater. That is, he’s a fag and a delusional narcissist.
Yup
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