Armed man posing as law enforcement detained at site of Charlie Kirk’s memorial
An armed man posing as the police has been held in an Arizona stadium where a commemorative service for Charlie Kirk is expected to take place on Sunday, the secret services said.
On Friday, the man entered State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and showed a “suspect” behavior, a spokesman for the secret service in a statement on Saturday. The spokesman added that the man, whose agency name did not reveal, pretended to be the police and was armed.
“The person is not a member of the authorized police who work on the event and are currently in detention,” said the spokesperson. “American secret services and local police are investigating the circumstances to explain why he was there.”
Kirk’s commemorative service is expected to attract a massive audience, which will include President Donald Trump, vice-president JD Vance and other elected officials.
Kirk, a conservative activist with a popular podcast, “The Charlie Kirk Show”, was murdered this month while he was speaking during a event in a UTAH university campus. He was 31 years old and left a woman and two children.
His murder followed a series of political acts of violence in the United States in the past year, including the assassinations of the former lecturer of the Minnesota Chamber, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, in their home, and the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson, in the streets of New York. Trump also faced two assassination attempts while campaigning for the presidency last year.
Kirk’s assassination did not do much so that the political rhetoric is ignitioned that seized the nation for a better part of the decade.
Social media has undoubtedly become even more a sump of hatred since the September 10 attack, with extremists flooding news flows with the celebrations of the murder of Kirk and others call for civil war.
