The community vigils in California continued during the weekend to commemorate Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was killed by Fix Fire during a Utah rally on Wednesday.
In the Noe Valley Park in San Francisco, some 80 people attended a commemorative monument on Saturday afternoon organized by the Republican County Party. The San Francisco standard reported that the event included sentences, praise and posters that promote dialogue. At one point, police officers observed from a distance.
In Ventura County, the local Republican Committee is planning a “Light in the Dark” vigil on Monday night in Moorpark. The event, scheduled to start at 6:30 pm, is in Walnut Grove on land labeled Farms.
Kirk, founder of the conservative youth organization, Turning Point, was shot dead while giving a speech at a Utah University.
The 31 -year -old was popular among conservative groups on university campuses, but controversial for their often deliberately provocative attacks against diversity programs and racial, ethnic and sexual minorities groups.
He had called the Civil Rights Law as an error and recently tweeted that “Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.”
After his death, the subsequent speech of social networks in some sectors has become so divisive that some Utah officials asked that people start and “leave and do good in their community.”
Despite the online environment, politicians and defense groups of the entire political spectrum denounced the murder.
California governor Gavin Newsom said “he admired [Kirk’s] Passion and commitment to the debate “and called his” sick and representable “murder.
A leading American civil rights organization said that “the values that led us to oppose many of Mr. Kirk's positions are the same values that lead us to condemn their murder and reaffirm that political violence is not the response even to the most hateful rhetoric.”
Among the vigils held or scheduled for Kirk locally were those of Van Nuys, Beverly Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes and Huntington Beach. In addition, the Los Angeles Republican Party promoted an online event for Sunday, “Dignity on violence.” It is organized by the political organization, the non -profit organization Braver Angels.
In Moorpark, the organizers expected hundreds of people to attend Monday's vigil at Walnut Grove on landfined Farms.
Richard Lucas III, president of the Republican Party of Ventura County, who is organizing the event, said that Kirk clearly spoke the truth about the problems, including the second amendment and when life begins, in the process to himself “close and dear for so many people.”
He said he hopes that vigil includes prayers, the promise of loyalty and many tears.
“Pray for peace, pray for love,” Lucas said. “We know that political parties do not always see the eyes, but any result of violence is unequivocally unacceptable, especially political violence.”
