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Patriot Prayer Leader Denounces Smears of Supporter Shot Dead in Portland

Patriot Prayer Leader Denounces Smears of Supporter Shot Dead in Portland
Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson speaks during a rally in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019. John Rudoff/AFP via Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
9/2/2020|Updated: 9/7/2020

The leader of a conservative group who saw a supporter shot dead in Portland over the weekend strongly criticized people celebrating the death of the man while pushing back on characterizations of his group as a white supremacist organization.

“I knew that these people were low. I knew that Ted Wheeler was low. I knew that Kate Brown was low. I didn’t know that they were that low—They would turn around and called Jay some sort of white supremacist or say white supremacists came down there or say spoiling for a fight, when in their town, a Christian, a conservative, whatever, was shot execution-style, and they have no remorse for what happened,” Joey Gibson said in a video message posted on social media.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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