Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a troop that met at a local church. What is clear, though, is the long thread of frustration in Vetromile’s online posts — and the way those posts link him to an enduring conspiracy theory. ——A few years ago, Vetromile’s posts on Twitter and Instagram touched on subjects like video games and English class. By then, he was fully engaged in online conversations about immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, gun rights and Trump. That filing also contends the boy told Vetromile that forming a militia was “stupid.”But other court records contradict those assertions.

Source: National Post April 28, 2019 14:03 UTC