How the “Zizian cult” started, and may have led to VT
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COVENTRY, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – As details about the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont continue emerging, new information now shows the two people who were pulled over and involved in the shooting may have ties to a group that’s been described as a “dangerous cult.”
The group is known as the “Zizians”, and a combination of court records, investigative reporting and witness accounts show the group may have been around since 2019. That’s when its alleged leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, a transgender tech whiz and devout vegan, organized a group of people similar to him to protest a rationalist reunion on the outskirts of San Francisco, California.
Matthias Gafni, an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, covered the protest in 2019, not realizing at the time that it would spiral into one of the most bizarre investigations of his career.
“I just happened to be the reporter here at the Chronicle that covered this bizarre protest,” Gafni reminisced. “They (LaSota and co.) showed up there in all black robes, in Guy Fawkes masks, and they blocked the entrance and exit to this place with a school bus and a flatbed truck and started handing out flyers about what they were protesting about.”
“Now we know these years later that that was really a launching point,” Gafni said.
Fast forward to 2022, LaSota and his associates bought a World War II tugboat in Alaska and sailed it down to San Francisco Bay with plans to live on it, according to multiple reports. But eventually, the boat sank and the group abandoned it, with LaSota faking his death in the process.
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