Brother labels suspect who attacked Ilhan Omar a 'right-wing extremist' who has hated Somalis for decades [View all]
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 28 January 2026 13:33 EST
The man accused of attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Tuesday evening town hall meeting in Minnesota is a “piece of s**t” with lifelong anger issues who has been fixated on the Somali-born lawmaker – and the Somali diaspora in general – for years, his younger brother told The Independent.
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Anthony James Kazmierczak’s brother said Wednesday morning in a phone interview from his home in North Carolina. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
Kazmierczak, a 55-year-old Minneapolis resident, is “just a different person than I am,” according to the brother, who said he has been estranged from his sibling for the past four years. The Independent agreed not to name the brother, who said he has begun receiving death threats.
“I believe in helping people,” Kazmierczak’s brother, 52, went on. “He believes in blaming people.”
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/ilhan-omar-attack-anthony-kazmierczak-brother-b2909613.html
We have seen many DUers describe living with the same situation within their own families.
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