Another bad day for Acepimp...
Two of the families who lost children in the Sandy Hook mass shooting are suing radio host Alex Jones and his website Infowars for defamation after becoming the target of internet conspiracy theorists.
Jones has been at the front of a small but loud group of conspiracy theorists who believe that the shooting was a staged “false flag” event, intended to push US public opinion toward increased gun control. “Undoubtedly, there’s a cover-up, there’s actors, they’re manipulating, they’ve been caught lying, and they were pre-planning before it,” Jones said in a March 2014 broadcast.
A lawyer handling the cases for the parents described how the families have been traumatized in addition to their bereavement.
“Our clients have been tormented for five years by Mr Jones’s ghoulish accusations that they are actors who faked their children’s deaths as part of a fraud on the American people,” said Mark Bankston, lead attorney in the case. “Enough is enough.”
Neil Heslin, along with Leonard Pozner and his ex-wife Veronique De La Rosa, both families who lost six-year-old children, filed the suits early on Tuesday in Travis county, Texas, where Jones’s outlet is based. Each suit is seeking more than $1m in damages.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nts-defamation