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Vandal attacks Gowanus Trump-fan’s home (Brooklyn, New York)
The Brooklyn Paper ^ | July 11, 2016 | Lauren Gill

Posted on 07/11/2016 10:03:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This is not how you rock the vote.

Someone hurled a rock through a Gowanus family’s door after it put signs up supporting presidential candidate Donald Trump, leaving the household patriarch steaming about the struggles of supporting the conservative cause in a largely liberal neighborhood.

“I was angry that’s for sure,” said Joshua Ramos who lives on 11th Street between Third and Fourth avenues with his two young kids. “It’s not fair, you can’t put anything up for Trump.”

Ramos said the vandal pitched the projectile through the glass of his front door while he and his family were asleep on the night of June 24, then tore one of his three Trump signs in half.

The registered Republican claims he will have to dish out $2,400 to repair the door, but is mostly peeved that the rock-thrower put his tots in danger.

“There’s people who don’t even realize there’s two children in the house,” he said. “How could they even do something like this? It’s disgraceful.”

He won’t be displaying any more banners for the Donald out of fear for his youngsters’ safety, he said.

Ramos says he reported the vandalism to the police, but they haven’t had any luck tracking down the perpetrator so far. The cops are also not investigating the attack as a hate crime, despite Ramos’s best efforts to convince them otherwise.

He doesn’t think any of the people who live on his street are responsible — they’re all friendly, he says — but rather that it was a drunk radical from elsewhere in the neighborhood.

“You know there’s lots of liberal people around here — they got drunk and did what they had to do,” he said. “I’ve got my [U.S.] flag up — I’m surprised they didn’t tear it down or burn it.”

Ramos says he has been following Trump since the 1980s and has backed the businessman’s presidential bid from day one — he is worried about terrorist attacks, and likes Trump’s immigration policies and the fact that he is not a career politician.

“I can’t even take my kids anywhere, I’m constantly looking around,” he said. “It’s just like living in a different world, there’s no jobs, it’s corrupt. I think we need to get someone in there who isn’t a politician that can’t be bought.”

But even with his steadfast support, Ramos said it is difficult to discuss his political views openly in the left-leaning neighborhood — in his three-block electoral district alone, 204 people voted in this year’s Democratic primary, while just eight cast a ballot in the Republican race.

“You can’t even talk about it, people look at you like you’re an alien,” he said.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; hispanics; newyork; trump
I've been told numerous times that Hispanics aren't supporting Trump. Were they lying to me?
1 posted on 07/11/2016 10:03:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Liberals are intolerant and mean. Plain and simple!


2 posted on 07/11/2016 10:05:37 AM PDT by jokemoke
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“I was angry that’s for sure,” said Joshua Ramos


another latino for Trump


3 posted on 07/11/2016 10:06:49 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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My neighbor has his Trump yard sign tied to his third floor balcony


4 posted on 07/11/2016 10:08:03 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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5 posted on 07/11/2016 10:12:27 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Yes, they must be lying to us or Ramos has become an Amish name. ; )


6 posted on 07/11/2016 10:16:18 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes. 28 percent support is not supporting him.

We can lie to ourselves about blacks and hispanics voting higher than 10 or 30, respectively, OR we can make sure EVERY SINGLE person you know votes, get the elderly absentee ballots, every white dude who hasn’t voted in decades has to vote NOW.

They showed their support by throwing a brick through his window.

That’s an hisanic neghborhood, completely. He’s crazy to have a Trump sign. I like that. Not far from me. If I was able to, I’d call and ask if he wants me to stand guard a few hours in the evening.


7 posted on 07/11/2016 10:21:07 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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I’ve got a trail cam I periodically set up in my back yard to see what critters are passing thru. The good ones (around $110) can be easily placed anywhere and at night are completely invisible. The pictures are high quality......


8 posted on 07/11/2016 10:21:13 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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They are just grown children who refuse to take no for an answer. That’s why they need to be told no every single time.


9 posted on 07/11/2016 10:33:23 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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“I can’t even take my kids anywhere, I’m constantly looking around,”

Walking while being Conservative.

10 posted on 07/11/2016 10:53:35 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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“I was angry that’s for sure,” said Joshua Ramos who lives on 11th Street between Third and Fourth avenues with his two young kids.


Writer appears to be trying to have Ramos targeted again by specifying his address.


11 posted on 07/11/2016 10:54:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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Gowanus Trump-fan is a good name for a rock band.


12 posted on 07/11/2016 11:02:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down." ~Johnny Cash)
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Democrat vandals long ago made it clear that Republican bumper stickers are not allowed in America.


13 posted on 07/11/2016 3:34:56 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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That’s an hisanic neghborhood, completely.

White libtards have moved into Gowanus. More likely one of them threw the rock.

14 posted on 07/12/2016 2:01:14 PM PDT by FreeReign
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