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Boat Displaying Trump 2020 Banner Set on Fire in Connecticut
www.newsweek.com ^ | On 9/2/20 at 4:30 AM EDT | By Ewan Palmer

Posted on 10/20/2020 6:53:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

A man has been arrested in Connecticut on suspicion of starting a fire on a boat displaying a Donald Trump banner.

Olajuwon Johnson, 25, of Bridgeport, has been charged with third-degree arson following an incident at the East End Yacht Club at around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.

Scott Appleby, the city's director of emergency management and emergency communications, told the Fairfield Citizen Bridgeport Police had received reporting a man with a can of gasoline on a boat.

The 911 caller reported smelling smoke before noticing that a boat cooler was on fire. He extinguished the flames himself.

Police were then provided a description of the suspect. A man who later matched the description, later identified as Johnson, was found and detained.

The man who made the 911 call also identified Johnson as the person he saw on the boat.

Johnson was arrested and charged with third-degree arson. His bond was set at $10,000.

The owner of the boat, Mark Bourque, said that Jonson was found by police holding a gas can.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: arson; dncbrownshirts; eastendyachtclub; electionviolence; olajuwonjohnson; oldnews; trump; voterintimidation
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1 posted on 10/20/2020 6:53:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess.... No, I don’t have to, do I?


2 posted on 10/20/2020 6:55:22 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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To: Red Badger

I think the biggest reason a lot of these leftists haven’t already been shot is that conservatives tend to be very law abiding citizens...Conservatives generally rely on law enforcement to do their job...

More and more today, law enforcement is becoming non-existent and I think it won’t be long before shooting begins...


3 posted on 10/20/2020 6:56:40 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Noumenon

Olajuwon Johnson, 25, of Bridgeport

4 posted on 10/20/2020 6:59:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

Black Arson Matters.


5 posted on 10/20/2020 7:00:55 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: JBW1949

Concur.


6 posted on 10/20/2020 7:02:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Red Badger

mark


7 posted on 10/20/2020 7:02:29 AM PDT by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply.)
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To: Noumenon
Olajuwon Johnson??

No - I think that's necessary.

8 posted on 10/20/2020 7:04:15 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: Red Badger

Does he normally hang out at Connecticut yacht clubs?


9 posted on 10/20/2020 7:07:12 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: Red Badger

His first name is a disgrace to a great basketball player and a class act. This low life isn’t fit to carry Hakeem Olajuwon’s shoes.


10 posted on 10/20/2020 7:10:36 AM PDT by pburiak
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To: Red Badger

Bookmark


11 posted on 10/20/2020 7:11:50 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Obviously, his hair has that ‘sea-breeze fluff’ look.................


12 posted on 10/20/2020 7:12:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: pburiak

Perhaps it started as Orenthal, and mom changed it.


13 posted on 10/20/2020 7:12:11 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Does he normally hang out at Connecticut yacht clubs?
= = =

It’s the only link to his ancestors, you know, the ones that survived the shark-infested trip from Africa back in 1619.


14 posted on 10/20/2020 7:12:26 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: Red Badger

Would be interested if the boat with the banner had a toilet, a cooking burner and a bunk? If so, the boat is classed as a residence and, even if unoccupied at the moment, ups the arson charge to being against a dwelling. Like using a bomb, arson is an act of unspecified death potential, ie. the arsonist cannot really know the extent of injury the act may do.

How many of these acts of violence are coming from the non-LEFT, any? Yet it seems even with violence FROM Trump antagonists, the LEFT blames Trump for creating the climate of hate, ignoring completely the fact that their own vitriol is like gas on the fire tha they criticize.

Aaarrrrgggghhhhh!


15 posted on 10/20/2020 7:27:38 AM PDT by SES1066 (2020, VOTE your principles, VOTE your history, VOTE FOR ALL AMERICANS, VOTE colorblind!)
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I live in Connecticut and Trump signs are stolen or damaged all the time around here.

It's not even a battleground state but the intolerant Democrats can't even stomach a little opposition. Law enforcement around here doesn't take it seriously because in CT it is just a Class C misdemeanor - similar to a speeding ticket - with a maximum fine of $500.

They really need to make this a felony, as you are trespassing on private property and damaging/stealing property.

16 posted on 10/20/2020 7:53:00 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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17 posted on 10/20/2020 7:55:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SES1066

18 posted on 10/20/2020 7:58:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SamAdams76

Here in Florida Panhandle, a really conservative military area, Biden schmucks are going round spray painting big red X’s across Trump signs.......................


19 posted on 10/20/2020 8:05:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

I guess the crazed democrat arsonist didn’t have time to shove the elderly boat owner to the ground and kick him in the face and ribs?


20 posted on 10/20/2020 8:07:45 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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