The elderly man detained after apparently falsely admitting to shooting Charlie Kirk is a known political agitator with a string of bizarre arrests dating back to the 1980s, according to reports.

George Zinn — the 71-year-old police hauled away in viral footage minutes after Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University Wednesday — is known in local political circles as a strange man who frequently appears at events, and almost as frequently is tossed out.

“Almost every political event you can think of, there was always George somewhere in the background, listening,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told the Salt Lake Tribune . 3

And Zinn has a habit of causing disruptions at those events with protests that are often nonsensical and have a dubious connection to his conserv

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