Klint Ludwig, grandson of 84-year-old Andrew Lester who shot and 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head when the black teen mistakenly rang his doorbell claimed the elderly gunman held racist beliefs.
Appearing on a CNN programme, Klint disclosed that his grandfather is a Trump supporter who has been radicalized by racist conservative views in recent years.
He said he was ‘disgusted’ by Lester’s alleged attack on Yarl, calling it a ‘horrible tragedy.’ Klint also said he is 100 percent in Yarl’s corner.
When CNN anchor, Don Lemon asked Klint why he was speaking out against his grandfather, he responded by saying: ‘It is right thing to do, in this country it happens over and over again where people get away with killing unarmed innocent Black people.
‘People need to speak out and not make any excuses for this kind of behavior and violence.’
Klint further revealed that his grandfather is a ‘stock American Christian male’ with ‘racist tendencies.’
He also alleged that as his grandfather got older, he became conspiratorial and would say ‘weird racist things,’ which seemed to be the result of watching conservative media outlets all day long.
Ludwig went on to say Lester who is a Trump supporter became radicalized with these toxic views, within the last five years or so.
He said his grandfather began subscribing to QAnon theories, including that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency funded medical experiments on beagles.
When Ludwig tried to push back on the theories, the grandson said Lester couldn’t take the criticism, and the two eventually lost touch with each other.
‘It’s the conspiracies and weird, random, racist things they say, and it doesn’t make sense, but they’re just scared,’ he said of people like his grandfather.
