The mother of Dylan Hockley, a 6-year-old killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, testified Tuesday in a trial to determine how much money in damages Infowars host Alex Jones owes plaintiffs suing him in Connecticut.
Nicole Hockley said she started looking online for information about the shooting in January of 2013, and that’s when she found out about lies being told about the shooting.
One of those lies included Alex Jones, who on his Infowars show made light of a video of Sandy Hook parents crying during a news conference just weeks after the shooting. The parent Jones singled out was Robbie Parker, whom Jones accused of being an actor. Jones also said the shooting was a “false flag” event staged by the government to curtail gun rights.
Hockley said Jones “wouldn’t have popped out as the instigator of a lot of this, but I felt the impact of what he was doing from his followers.”
In the weeks after the shooting, Hockley would see people making fun of Parker online. She’d tell the doubters that her son was killed at Sandy Hook and that her surviving son was there too.
“I would respond. And that was the wrong thing to do,” she said.
She then received direct messages, phone calls to her friends looking for her, and mail at her house.
“I got sent pictures of dead kids because I was told that as a crisis actor, I didn’t really know what a dead kid looked like, so this is what it should look like. I got mail saying ‘F Dylan’ and ‘F You,’ ‘We’re going to extend an RIP...
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