Anthony “Andy” James Kazmierczak, the person accused of assaulting Democratic US Rep. Ilhan Omar at a city corridor in Minneapolis Tuesday, has a historical past of sharing political posts on social media.
In 2021, he shared a political cartoon criticizing Omar’s stance on safety spending amid calls to defund police. And in current months, he added profile‑image badges expressing help for each Israel and Ukraine. He has additionally reposted transphobic content material from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro about transgender athletes.
After conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s loss of life in September, Kazmierczak modified his profile image to a picture of Donald Trump talking at a Turning Point USA occasion, later changing it with a photograph of Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk alongside Trump. In September, he wrote on a Turning Point USA native chapter’s Facebook web page that Charlie Kirk had been “in my life” for eight years.
Kazmierczak has prior site visitors‑associated offenses, together with two DUI convictions, court docket data present. He has been married and divorced twice, in accordance to Minnesota’s official marriage and divorce data.
His Facebook profile presents the 55-year-old Minneapolis resident as a suburban father of two daughters and a Minnesota Vikings fan. He describes himself as an “empty nester looking to enjoy retirement and 2nd half of my adventure.”