Posted on 05/21/2026 10:57:55 AM PDT by Phoenix8
FIRST ON FOX: A California man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly critically injuring a man outside an Escondido home known for displays of American flags, pro-Trump messages and other banners, according to local police.
The 32-year-old suspect, Thomas Caleb Butler, is being held in the Vista Detention Facility in San Diego County.
Around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Escondido police officers responded to reports of an assault at the intersection of East Mission Avenue and Buchanan Street.
They found an elderly male "suffering from significant injuries" and said that a good Samaritan who intervened had also been hurt, according to authorities.
By the time they arrived, the suspect had fled on foot, police said. However, additional officers found him about a half-mile away. Records show Butler lives around the corner from the victim.
Escondido police did not name the victim, who was hospitalized in critical condition. Public records show the property is owned by a 69-year-old man.
Anyone with information on the attack is asked to call Escondido police at (760) 839-4722 and reference case No. 26004339.
Some neighbors have complained about the displays for years, which tower over the side of the property.
Video taken in the aftermath of the attack shows a man pointing responding officers toward something and then gesturing as though someone was being kicked or stomped.
Police placed evidence markers in the street and photographed the front of the home, near a mailbox and a parked pickup truck with two American flags set up over the bed.
Just a few feet away, another parked car had its hood propped open.
Another image showed what appeared to be blood at the foot of the driveway between the two vehicles.
Escondido police did not immediately respond to a request for comment before West Coast business hours Thursday.
A Reddit post in the r/sandiego forum last year showed a man in a folding chair sitting on the sidewalk outside the home, with an American flag in his right hand and the left gesturing in what the poster described as a "Roman salute."
Yet when I see stories like this I realize they are on an entirely higher plane of hate I could ever achieve. To beat a man almost 70, kicking him over and over in the head until he is in the I.C.U. hanging onto life by a thread. It’s difficult to imagine that over Trump signs.
Now you’re beginning to understand why Franco and Pinochet had to do what they did.
Perhaps the jail grapevine could start talking about the pedophile Mr Butler. Then Mr Butler might receive fair treatment.
“Now you’re beginning to understand why Franco and Pinochet had to do what they did.”
You are so correct!
“TDS extremists” (tedsies) in action.
The silver lining?
At least we know that Good Samaritans may be an endangered species in California, but it appears this old gentlemen can be thankful they are not yet extinct.
Past time to treat them even worse
A YouTuber said that he has reports some other men were seen fleeing the scene so it could be a group beat down that happened.
People learn a lot of things in life but Butler never learned about self control.
Should have got some Antiferal pills.
The democrat party has been destroying Life, Liberty, and Property since its inception in 1829.
Prove me wrong.
You show you refrain from painting the Dems with one brush, something that no longer applies to me.
Exactly.
Agreed.
Absolute warfare. All the time everywhere. Hakeem approves.
If this had happened against a Kamala voter, the MSM would be asking every Republican Senator and Congressman if they condemn this sort of political violence.
I don’t know why Pinochet gets a bad rap. He took commies to new heights.
He might pick the wrong house someday.
I am liking the Mencken phrase, “hoist the black flag and start slitting throats”. If you are going to show your support for the President of the United States, be prepared. Cameras are pretty cheap.
I no longer believe these people are addressable short of violence. They’re monsters. Any idea how viciously you have to beat somebody to draw attempted murder?
“Should have got some anti-feral pills”
What caliber?
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