Father of Florida school shooting survivor says claims his son is a ‘crisis actor’ are ‘a joke’
David Fogg is one of the many students speaking out after the shooting for stricter gun controls
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Your support makes all the difference.A former FBI agent and father of one of the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last week in Florida says that criticism of his son is ill-placed.
Kevin Fogg, speaking alongside his son on Anderson Cooper’s 360, said that his career with America’s top intelligence agency was “perfect”, and that he is not sure how anyone could assume that his son is a “crisis actor”.
“I don’t know how they believe that there is such a thing,” Mr Fogg said of the individuals claiming that his son is pretending to be a survivor of the high school shooting. “My career has been perfect. I was a navy pilot before, an elementary school teacher. I moved on and got on with the FBI and i was proud of it, and I still am.”
But, when Cooper apologised for bringing up the criticism, Mr Fogg said that he is not concerned with the backlash.
“I’m not worried about tit. They can bring it on. It’s a joke,” he said at the end of his appearance.
Mr Fogg’s son, David Fogg, is one of the students from Stoneman Douglas who has been speaking up in favour of gun control laws since the shooting. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the students decided to begin organising and speaking out about their experience, scheduling media appearances alongside the funerals for their murdered classmates.
“The fact that these people are being critical of me as a witness, and personally as a victim to this incident, and having to witness this and live through it again and again, it is unbelievable,” the younger Fogg told Cooper. “We are trying to fix[weapons laws]. Unlike those people who are tweeting that stuff about me, and unlike the people that are tweeting stuff about my dad, I know the people working at the FBI are hard workers.”
The students have been organizing a march in Washington next month to protest gun violence and press for greater gun controls. Their organising has sparked sister protests around the country, with students saying that there has been too much gun violence and it is time for a change.
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