Battling Hoaxers in Court, Sandy Hook Families Replay a Tragedy
A month before what would have been his son Noah’s 13th birthday, Lenny Pozner told a jury about the last time he saw him, when he dropped him off at school on Dec. 14, 2012.
“It was cold, but he jumped out not wearing his jacket, and he had one arm in one sleeve and his backpack on the other arm, and he was kind of juggling both and walking into the school that way,” Mr. Pozner told a Wisconsin jury in October. “And that’s — that’s the last visual that I have of Noah.”
Noah Pozner was one of 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Newtown, Conn., seven years ago this week. Since then, some of the victims’ families have been battling an online phalanx of conspiracy theorists who have threatened and tormented them, advancing false claims that they were actors in a government-backed hoax aimed at confiscating Americans’ firearms.
Mr. Pozner was the first family member to turn to the courts, fighting an array of “hoaxers,” as he calls them, including Alex Jones, who peddled falsehoods about the shooting on his Infowars radio and online show.
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