Mauricio Garcia, who shared a name with a Texas shooter, is suing Tim Pool and Steven Crowder after his photo was used in coverage of the massacre.
was falsely accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting in Allen, Texas has sued multiple prominent right-wing influencers and conservative media outlets for libel over their coverage of the massacre. host Owen Shroyer among others, of having “recklessly disregarded basic journalistic safeguards and published the photo of an innocent man, branding him as a neo-Nazi murderer to his local community and the nation at large.
Garcia argues that conspiracy theories spread by the right-wing influencers named in the lawsuit further compounded the wrongful damage to his reputation. In the aftermath of the shooting, prominent conservativesthat Martinez Garica’s extremist ties and the massacre itself were a “psyop.” The lawsuit accuses Pool, Crowder, and Shroyer of wrongfully using his image in their discussion of the shooting — and in some instances linking him to their conspiracies.
In addition “in the following days, Pool continued to cast doubt on the event and tell his audience that the event was a psyop or staged government conspiracy. These allegations amplified the damage to Mr. Garcia.”
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