A gun control nut vandalized the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool with red spray paint in a broad daylight political stunt.
Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, 31, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti for tagging a section of the North Tower reflecting pool with the name of his website Monday evening, police said, according to CBS News New York.
“Juststopkillingkids.com,” read the red spray-painted markings written across the names of dozens of victims engraved into the memorial at the footprint of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack.
Tijerina, 31, took credit for the vile desecration, posting video of himself in the midst of the act.
The alleged vandal recorded the entire stunt from start to finish, capturing himself walking up to the memorial, pulling a spray can out of his bag and writing his message across several panels, according to several videos posted to Instagram.
Tijerina identified himself as the person behind the vandalism that cost over $2,500 in damages, according to police.
“My name is Jon Tijerina and I’ve just spray-painted ‘just stop killing kids’ on the 9/11 Memorial,” Tijerina boasted.
The 9/11 Memorial and Museums announced it had removed the spray paint, returning the memorial to its previous state.
“The 9/11 Memorial is a sacred place of reflection at the heart of a rebuilt World Trade Center that honors the 2,983 victims killed in the September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 terrorist attacks. Yesterday’s brief incident was swiftly addressed by security staff and law enforcement, and the impacted area was immediately restored to its commemorative state,” a spokesperson told CBS New York.
Tijerina’s website promoted “nonviolent civil resistance” as the answer to his campaign, saying it was the way to change laws and society.
Tijerina promoted his arrest as a win, attempting to get the attention of President Trump and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“On October 26, 2026, Jon Tijerina was arrested for spraying red paint on Freedom Tower in NYC. He is demanding that Trump and Mamdani enforce common-sense, highly popular demands with respect to guns such as Universal Background Checks and a National Gun Registry,” Tijerina’s organization wrote in a follow-up post.
He cited the mass shooting after the Florida A&M homecoming football game as a reason for his alleged vandalism.
Tijerina’s “civil resistance organization” made two demands to “Just Stop Killing Kids” – calling for universal background checks and universal gun registry.
“We have two specific, achievable demands. Both have majority public support. Both already exist in other high-income countries. Neither requires repealing the Second Amendment. We are not asking for the impossible — we are asking for what every other wealthy democracy already has,” the website states.
Tijerina complained Monday that another one of his political protests, a recent seven-day fast didn’t receive any attention.
His alleged weeklong protest was to demand 2 million affordable housing units be made available in the city within 5 years.
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