Aonda of political violence in the United States reaches left and right with hundreds of cases

If the series of political attacks is added to the country that affect both spectra, in what is classified as the most prolonged growth of political violence since the 70s.

The 31 -year -old assassination of Charlie Kirk last week collected a wave of publications on social media on an alleged persecution of the right and radical leaders.

Comparing the death of the activist with the attempt to murder the former president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 and, more recently, with Donald Trump in an event last year, the supporters of these leaders ask for the end of the conservative attacks.

But the news indicates a violent and radical moment that aims both on the right and on the left. Or both republicans and conservatives, democrats and progressive.

So far, the suspect of shooting Kirk, who has been assassinated while making a speech at Utah Valley University, has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old electric student.

Robinson was arrested on Thursday (9/11) after surrendering. The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, told the Wall Street Journal That the suspicion, born in Utah, was “deeply indoctrinated with the left ideology”.

However, Robinson was recorded to vote in 2021 as “not affiliated” to no political party in the United States, according to the documents seen by the BBC.

Attacks against the deputy, the senator and the governor

A survey by Reuters has shown that the United States experienced the most prolonged growth political violence since the 70s and that this trend began during the first Trump presidential race in 2016.

Between the attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021 and the presidential elections of 2024, 300 cases of political violence were counted.

The crime against Kirk, therefore, is not isolated. On the contrary, it is added to a series of violent acts in the country.

In April, a man broke into the residence of the Governor of Pennsylvania, the democrat Josh Shapiro, and set fire to the scene while the family was inside the house.

Two months later, the then mayor of the representatives, the democratic Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark Horman, had been hit to death at home.

Before the attack, the author of the shooting still tried to kill Senator John Hoffman, also the Democratic Party, and his wife Ivette Hoffman, but both survived.

Arrested the next day, the defendant, Vance Boelter, had, according to investigations, a private security company and was masked as a police officer at the time of the attack.

According to CNN, Boelter recorded herself to vote as a republican in the 2000s and, according to her friend David Carlson, who released press interviews at the time of crimes, was a sympathizer of the Trump administration and firmly opposes rights such as abortion and guidelines of the LGBT community.

At the end of the year, the murder of the manager of the health plans, Brian Thompson, CEO of Unitedhealthcare, shocked the United States and raised the debate on anger for the health plans.

The accused, Luigi Mangione, 26 years old, has not yet been tried. But in April, the United States General Prosecutor Pam Bondi said that the Court will ask for the maximum penalty as part of the Agenda of President Donald Trump to end violent crimes and make America again safe “.

Last year, the United States presidential campaign was marked by the attack of Donald Trump, while the Republican held a speech to a manifestation of Pennsylvania. Ryan Ruth, the attack accused in September, began to be tried last week in Florida.

Reth, 59, declared himself innocent.

Two years earlier, an attacker armed with a hammer entered the house of the mayor, Nancy Pelo, the influential member of the Democratic Party, and beat his husband Paul Peloi.

In 2017, a man opened fire on the members of the Republican Congress during a baseball training in North Virginia.

In Brazil, political violence was also present inside and outside the electoral campaigns.

The attack on the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in 2018, wounded with a stab during a demonstration in Minas Gerais, violently marked those elections. The author of the attack, Adélio Bispo, is arrested, although he was considered by invocable justice because of mental madness.

In 2022, even during the presidential elections, Marcelo Arruda, Treasurer of the PT in Foz Do Iguaçu (MG), was assassinated while celebrating his birthday. The theme of the party was the PT and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The former accused, a former federal charge Jorge José by Rocha Guaranho, was sentenced to 20 years of prison for doubly qualified murder.

Source: Terra

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