CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller warned Friday that the alleged assassin of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk appears to reflect a growing trend of radicalized individuals who draw from an incoherent mix of extremist ideologies.
Tyler Robinson allegedly fatally shot Kirk during a Utah Valley University event, with law enforcement later recovering bullet casings inscribed with “antifascist” and other leftist messages. During a segment on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Miller said recent lone-wolf attackers often have no clear ideological throughline, instead cobbling together disparate resentments from online sources.
“The perpetrators are selecting grievances from a salad bar where they mix and match different themes that have no mooring to their upbringing or family beliefs,” Miller said. “And a lot of this is driven by people who become lost and isolated, find their way to the internet, are already angry, depressed, and looking to lash out and, at the back end of that, decide, well, what they‘re going to lash out about?”
Miller said a wave of politically or ideologically charged attacks are occurring with alarming frequency across the country.
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“One of the things we‘re seeing, and you can go back through just, you know, recent events, whether it was the shooting in Washington, D.C. of the two Israeli embassy employees at the Jewish museum or the attack on politicians, elected officials in, outside Minneapolis at their homes by an individual posing as a police officer or, you know, the shooting at the church school in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago. These things are happening literally every other week,” Miller said.
Authorities identified 22-year-old Robinson as the suspected shooter in Kirk’s assassination after a family friend alerted law enforcement Thursday night. Robinson allegedly told his father he would rather die by suicide than turn himself in, prompting his father to connect him with their youth pastor.
The Pentagon is now monitoring reports of military personnel celebrating Kirk’s assassination online and is considering disciplinary action. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the matter would be “addressed immediately” after several leftist accounts tied to service members were seen cheering the conservative leader’s death.
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