Kyle Fitzsimons, charged in connection to the Capitol riot, made racist and xenophobic remarks during a Maine legislature public hearing on May 10, 2017.to the January 6 Capitol riot made racist and xenophobic remarks during a public hearing before the Maine legislature in 2017.
CNN obtained the video from an eyewitness to the speech, who asked not to be named because of safety concerns. Mainer News was first to report Fitzsimons' remarks. In the 2017 speech, Fitzsimons' arguments mirrored some of the core tenets of the White nationalist"great replacement" theory. The belief is a delusion often held by White nationalists and supremacists, and it falsely claims there's an active effort to bring in immigrants from other countries to wipe out White people.
He claimed the man had been standing in front of a poster the previous day that read,"help the immigrant population navigate the juvenile criminal justice system." He described Fitzsimons' remarks as"the most racist comment I heard in the eight years I spent [in the legislature]."
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