Utah state governor calls people to “stop shooting at each other” after Kirk was killed Charlie Kerk shooting
Utah, Spencer Cox, called on people in the United States to “stop shooting at each other – that’s all”, saying that he presented this petition against political violence after his inability to “not see” a video clip of a snipers in his mandate killing the right -wing activist Charlie Kirk.
Cox delivered these comments in an interview broadcast on Sunday evening on the CBS program 60 minutes18 days after Kirk’s death at Utu Valley University (UVU) and one week of Turning Point Usa service outside Phoenix.
Republican politician told 60 -minute correspondent Scott Billy that his conservative colleagues accuse him of “all the time” of people’s desire to obtain a “combia” moment – “to hold his hands and hugs only.”
“I am not asking anyone to hold their hands and hugs – I do not ask for that,” Cox said in the first show of the 60 -minute season. “I try to make people stop shooting each other – that’s all.”
Cox alluded to the public discourse that sought Kirk’s killing as it occurred during the war – an official declaration – was being launched between the Americans on both sides of the country’s political gap. He claimed that those who are trying to raise temptation amid the rhetorical climate – including, especially on social media platforms – were “mistakes.”
“The question I always ask when I hear people say … that we are in war … [is] What does that mean? “Note Cox too. Who is supposed to shoot now?”
Quoting the interviews of investigators with people close to the suspected killer, Public Prosecutors in Utah Tyler Robinson Kirk claimed that he was tired of what he considered “hatred” Kerk. Investigators reported that they had told his family that Robinson had become “more supportive of gay and guided rights” in the previous year of his arrest regarding Kirk’s killing.
It was at least a prominent example of political violence in less than six months. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro was extinguished in April. On June 14, relevant shootings were killed, former Speaker of Minnesota, Melissa Hortmann and her husband, Mark, while the state was wounded in the state John Hoffman – her democratic colleague – and his wife Evit.
Cox said that, like many others in the United States, he could not avoid seeing the Kirk video that is being filmed while speaking in UVU “on a episode again and again.”
“I can’t see it,” said Cox, who has informed the national media several times that Kirk was killed early in his investigation. “I can’t stop seeing it. Every time I close my eyes – that’s what I see.”
Cox said he knew that Kirk had died in the hospital, where he was taken after the shooting from the assistant who sent the ruler to the facility. According to Kox, then called the White House to transfer the death news to Donald Trump, Kirk’s close ally.
The Trump administration has since pledged to crack the left -wing groups that opposed Kirk’s views.
When asked if he was “not Trump’s Republican,” Cox said, “This depends.” He explained that, who voted for Trump, as the last man succeeded in a second presidency in November. But Cox indicated that he did not support Trump when he nominated his first presidency in 2016 or lost his re -election to Joe Biden after four years.
Billy Cox also gave an opportunity to address the name “National embarrassment” by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon after Kirk’s killing.
“This is good – we can do this discussion,” Cox said. “There are some people who think I am embarrassed. This is good too.”