Posted on 10/08/2022 8:57:19 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Mankato, Minn., man is facing several charges after he allegedly beat a woman so severely that police officers “couldn’t see her eyes.”
The suspect, 23-year-old Paul Peter Jal, was “upset” because the victim was “wearing an American flag shirt,” a criminal complaint says. Jal is facing charges of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, third-degree assault, threats of violence, disrupting a 911 call, and damage to property.
The complaint says Mankato police responded to an apartment residence around 4:15 a.m. Oct. 2 after 911 received a call from a woman who was “screaming” as a male voice and “thumping sounds” could be heard in the background.
Police arrived to find a victim who was “soaking wet head to toe in water” with a bleeding nose and a face that was “swollen to the point that officers couldn’t see her eyes.”
“Officers entered the apartment and observed water all over the floor, broken plastic on the kitchen floor, and several cell phones that had cracks on the screen,” the complaint says.
Jal allegedly choked the victim, punched her repeatedly, and attacked her with a towel rack he ripped out of the wall. The victim said Jal stabbed her and police “observed a puncture wound.”
During the attack, Jal threatened to kill the victim and “told her she would die tonight,” the complaint says. The victim attempted to call 911 using the phone of another man who was asleep in the apartment at the time. Jal took the phone and broke it, the charges say.
Police attempted to locate Jal when they responded but couldn’t find him. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he does not appear to be in custody yet.
Jal has four prior felony convictions, including for threats of violence, drug possession, and fleeing a police officer.
People have got to re learn they must defend and protect themselves. No one else is going to do it for them. They have been deluded into living in a fool's paradise where the Police protected everyone. That might have worked for a while. But that is no longer the case. There will be a lot of bruises, blood, and dead bodies before that lesson is re learned.
Jal took the phone and broke it, the charges say."
It always does...
Over sudan. And attach a message explaining this is what happens when going to the ‘great satan’.
Amish right winger I’m thinking…
And he is still running wild and free. As is Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile the Jan 6ers are being psychocically tortured on a hourly basis while being illegally held in a D.C. jail. Just goes to prove that, “Might does make right”. That and having the guns and being ready to use them.
I'm pretty old and can remember when this was understood by all. Using the flag in this manner would have been viewed as disrespectful.
Black Hawk Down Somalian
True words.
To this day, I don’t “wear” the American flag. I fly it only.
Minnesota loves communism, so this guy will get a reward for eliinating a Republican voter
This will be limited to local news except for conservative media. If a right-winger beat up a woman for wearing a Pride shirt, it would be national news.
Indeed.
The perp is completely wrong and so are you. What that means is not taking a full size American flag and stitching it into an item of clothing.
I don’t think Jal was angry about the woman’s violation of the Flag Code.
I wonder if we have all of the pertinent facts, and whether the American flag shirt was really the issue. It sounds like this occurred in the woman’s - or someone’s - apartment, not in public. Did Jal know the woman? Why was he there in the first place? Was he allowed in, or did he break in? Who was the other man in the apartment, and did he actually sleep through the entire incident? Is the flag shirt just an excuse for some other motive, such as sexual jealousy or a drug deal gone wrong?
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that he doesn’t know anything about flag etiquette and he beat the hell out of her for some other less-principled reason.
1960s flashback....
Hoffman arrested for American flag shirt: 1968 - Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman is arrested for wearing an American flag shirt when he shows up at a House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearing ....
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