Posted on 06/30/2015 10:52:59 PM PDT by InMemoriam
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who reported someone beat him and carved a homophobic slur into his arm staged the attacks, authorities in rural Utah said Tuesday.
Millard County Sheriff Robert Dekker said Rick Jones, 21, could face charges after officers investigating the series of reported attacks found inconsistencies in the evidence. The Delta man eventually acknowledged faking the harassment, Dekker said.
Brett Tolman, an attorney for Jones, said the reports were a cry for help initially directed toward people close to him, and Jones didn't realize how much attention they would get.
"I think it's such good evidence of the difficulties members of the gay community deal with, and some make better choices than others," Tolman said.
Jones has since begun mental health treatment, the lawyer said.
The purported attacks began with a beating at his family's pizza business in April that left Jones with head and facial bruising.
Five days later, the family's home was found spray-painted with a homophobic slur. On June 10, a rock and a molotov cocktail were thrown through the window of the home. That same day, the business was spray-painted, broken into and robbed of $1,000.
Jones told KSL-TV earlier this month he believed he was targeted because he is gay.
Dekker said prosecutors are considering possible charges including filing a false report and reckless burning.
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“Like 97% of the other such incidents” they added.
And the domestic enemies of the United States are trying to mainstream these crazy people.
Perpetual victims in their own minds.
It’s almost as if they WANT to be Victims and anything that takes that away is Dis-Empowering them...
Mentally ill, as they were properly classified as before a political change rather than on sound medical science.
Attention...it’s all about attention. /dons Captain Obvious uniform
I wonder if the $1,000. cash stolen was spent on drugs? He is into something. The lame excuse that he didn’t know gay mistreatment is a hot button these days isn’t even close to the truth.
We were debating this issue when it was first reported on Deseret News online. Several conservatives including myself were speculating that this was self-inflicted.
We were right!
I noticed all of the Liberal posters to the original story are nowhere to be seen on Deseret News.
Leftists a freaking liars!
Good call on that. Homosexuality is usually accompanied by one or more mental illness, even malignant narcissism, though it is not politically correct to mention this fact.
You’re right; if they are given legal “equality”, what will be their excuse for their crazy behavior, drug use, etc. - which is currently attributed to their lack of “equality”...
>> And the domestic enemies of the United States are trying to mainstream these crazy people.
Yup, the Left has exploited homosexuality quite “successfully.”
But the tremendous amount of exposed fraudulent claims has made me leery of any whining by libs. I assume all libs are lying about claims of harm done to them until proven true. Which they rarely are. As we now know about most recent incidents, libs did it to themselves.
One must be careful when debating leftists.
Many of them are unrelenting master-debaters. They are obsessed with master-debating, and they will master-debate anywhere, any time, no matter who might be watching - often engaging in several master-debating sessions in one day.
They are cunning linguists, as well.
Yes. It was drugs, IMO. It usually is.
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