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Arizona GOP lawmaker Wendy Rogers cited a right-wing conspiracy theory claiming that a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, was perpetrated by a federal agent.
Rogers posted the message in her Telegram account on Saturday, hours after the shooting in a supermarket that left 10 people dead and three injured.
"Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo," Rogers tweeted, seeming to imply that the shooter was a federal agent.
The claim echoes far-right conspiracy theories claiming that mass shootings are government "false flag" plots designed to justify taking away citizens' freedoms.
Authorities say the suspect in the Buffalo shooting livestreamed the attack and in a manifesto posted online cited racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. 11 of the 13 victims were Black.
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