The shooting of two Las Vegas police officers on Sunday morning at CiCi’s pizza place was a “false flag” operation staged by the US government, according to Alex Jones, the talk radio host, conspiracy theorist and founder of the website InfoWars.

But Jerad and Amanda Miller, the two alleged shooters, were actually vocal fans of InfoWars.com, and, more than that, as first revealed by Mother Jones, Jerad had as early as 2012 posted on the site about killing police officers.

Miller’s post, which is from May in that year, is titled 'The Police (To Kill Or Not To Kill)'. Miller discusses, at length, encounters he’d had with police officers, as well as the unfairness of being on probation.

In the post, Miller said one particular experience made him feel like he had taken “a trip back in time to Nazi Germany”.

“I do not wish to kill police,” he wrote. “I understand that most of them believe they are doing the right thing.” But, he explained in the post, he felt he had little choice.



“I’m being pushed further and further into a corner,” Miller said. “I am like a wild coyote. You corner me, I will fight to the death.”



The post concluded: “So, do I kill cops and make a stand when they come to get me? I would prefer to die than sit in their jail.”

In the comments underneath the post, his then fiancee Amanda wrote: “Jerad, baby, I love you with all my heart and I’ll stand behind you no matter what. It’s true that it's not fair that I can’t have a gun because you live with me.”

At the time, the couple were living in Indiana, where a previous drug charge against Jerad prevented them from purchasing firearms.

Jerad and Amanda Miller also frequently posted links to InfoWars to their Facebook pages. They appear to have been believers in a wide range of conspiracy theories and anti-government beliefs, including some championed by Jones.

During his radio broadcast on Monday morning, Jones said that there was “so much proof” that the shooting was staged by the government that when he read about the event, his mind “exploded with hundreds of data points".