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Santa Cruz couple faces hate crime charges after dog fight
KION ^ | April 24, 2022 | Veronica Macias

Posted on 04/24/2022 3:39:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A couple in Sana Cruz was arrested on Saturday after verbally and physically assaulting a gay couple along Blackburn Street.

It happened at about 11:30 a.m. when two men were walking their dog and crossed path with a man and a woman who were also were walking their pet. The dogs suddenly began barking and fighting and things then escalated between the pet owners, according to police.

The suspect is accused of yelling homophobic epithets at the gay couple and assaulted one of them.

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Was the dog gay?
1 posted on 04/24/2022 3:39:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Of course, no video. How convenient.


2 posted on 04/24/2022 3:41:30 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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I don’t know if the dogs are gay, but the nearby frogs were definitely gay


3 posted on 04/24/2022 3:43:02 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: fwdude

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
The Santa Cruz Police Department made an arrest for a hate crime assault on Saturday morning.

At 11:30 a.m. officers responded to an assault on the 100 block of Blackburn Street.

Investigators say two men, who are a couple, were walking their dog on Blackburn Street. They passed a man and a woman who were also walking a dog. The two dogs got into a fight, which angered the male suspect. The male suspect called the pair homophobic slurs and assaulted one of the men. The woman with him aided in the assault.

Both ran from the scene.

Surveillance video in the area showed the suspects fleeing into a nearby apartment complex. Officers were able to find the apartment and identify both the man and women they suspected of the assault.

The man, Richard Wood, a 28-year-old Santa Cruz resident, and the woman, Victoria Van Sandt, were arrested and booked into the county jail on charges of assault, conspiracy and violation of one’s civil rights — also known as a hate crime.


4 posted on 04/24/2022 3:50:40 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Richard Wood? Sounds like a standup guy to me.


5 posted on 04/24/2022 3:55:53 PM PDT by o-n-money (Not my president: WRONG Not the president: RIGHT)
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To: artichokegrower

Another 15 years.. wow!


6 posted on 04/24/2022 3:56:16 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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CA? I could have guessed it!


7 posted on 04/24/2022 3:59:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: o-n-money

You’d think maybe the gays would drop charges for the name alone.


8 posted on 04/24/2022 4:03:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: artichokegrower

I love the use of the standard “phobic” add.


9 posted on 04/24/2022 4:04:46 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: artichokegrower; dfwgator
Was the dog gay?


10 posted on 04/24/2022 4:14:27 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️.)
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Officers were able to find the apartment and identify both the man and women they suspected of the assault.

Were any of the arresting officers a trained biologist?


11 posted on 04/24/2022 4:15:55 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: artichokegrower

How did the normal couple know that the two men were homosexuals?


12 posted on 04/24/2022 4:23:02 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Their is NO SUCH THING as “hate” crimes, only CRIMES.

I can HATE you if I want to. Freedom of Speech.

I can call you the most vile, insensitive names, say nasty sexual things about your wife/baby mamma or your mother totally within my RIGHTS.

Now if I assault you, THAT is a CRIME. Even if the REASON I assaulted you is because I just don’t like you for your race, religion, or other its STILL JUST ASSAULT!

My reason for doing so, (except for physical self defense or physical defense of others) shouldn’t matter at all.

Freedom of speech MUST BE DEFENDED for EVERYONE if it is to be protected for YOU! NONE/ZERO exceptions.

You can abhor what someone says, but they have a RIGHT to say it and you have the right to tell them, in no uncertain terms, what you think about what they said, or just walk away.

One justice standard for one group and a different standard for all other groups is NOT “equal protection of the laws”.

The law pendulum has been allowed to swing way past center where it belongs. This can not correct the sins of the past.

The past is the past. It CAN’T be changed. It’s like awarding money damages for a wrongful death. It doesn’t bring them back.

So lets not jump on the band wagon for the justification of “hate crime laws.

Hate crime laws are unconstitutional and should be discarded.


13 posted on 04/24/2022 4:23:42 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Hate crime laws simply make our justice system two tiered. Some people receive more ‘justice’ than others.

Has SCOTUS ever ruled on the constitutionality of this clearly unconstitutional concept?


14 posted on 04/24/2022 4:28:58 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: artichokegrower

“Sparkey - Don’t be gay!”
South Park


15 posted on 04/24/2022 4:34:17 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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The dogs suddenly began barking and fighting and things then escalated between the pet owners, according to police.

How very nonjudgmental.

Let me make an educated guess. Sodomite's dog attacked the dog of the normal people. Normal people yelled about their dog being torn apart by Pervert's dog.

Now faggot wants to play the victim.

For bitchy you can not beat the guys with the crap fetish.

16 posted on 04/24/2022 4:36:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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“The suspect is accused of yelling homophobic epithets at the gay couple and assaulted one of them.”

Okay, it was a “gay” couple. Same difference.

The suspect is accused of yelling homophobic epithets at the gay couple...”

What is wrong with that? A CRIME? NO!

“...assaulted one of them.”

Now THAT is a crime! LOCK THEM UP!

“homophobic epithets”, like WHAT? SO WHAT?

God says its an ABOMINATION what this same sex couple is doing.

Not only do they have the RIGHT to tell them what they think of their “lifestyle” (freedom of speech), they also has the RIGHT to believe (freedom of religion) that the way they are living is an abomination before God.

The homosexual couple has the legal right to have the lifestyle they do and live the perverted degenerate life they are living, but they don’t have the right to have someone arrested just for calling them bad names or receive additional judicial consequences for doing so.


17 posted on 04/24/2022 4:45:46 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: skr

The faggots had masks in outside.


18 posted on 04/24/2022 4:49:09 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The dogs suddenly began barking and fighting and things then escalated between the pet owners

Certain people think it's A-OK to get their dog close to an unfamiliar dog, to the point where their fighting and things escalate. Industrial strength stupidity.

Some of these people should pass a test before being allowed to own a dog.

19 posted on 04/24/2022 5:22:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Yep. When I take my parent's dog for a walk if I run across someone else walking their dog I cross the road.

Two unfamiliar dogs will often fight.

He gets along with our Doberman and with the next door neighbor's dogs but I will not put him at risk with a strange dog.

20 posted on 04/24/2022 5:30:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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