Cal Graduate Arrested After Vandalism, Bacon Left at Davis Mosque

NBC Bay Area ^ | 2/15 | Lisa Fernandez

[nickcarraway]

A 30-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime after police and prosecutors say she broke windows and left bacon —a taboo for observant Muslims — on the door handle of a mosque in Davis, California.

At a news conference Tuesday, the Yolo County District Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Lauren Kirk-Coehlo of Davis, which prosecutors streamed on Periscope. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the Sacramento Bee reported.

She is charged in the vandalism of the Davis Islamic Center last month. The vandal broke six windows and two bicycles and put bacon strips on door handles.

She faces a felony vandalism charge with a hate-crime enhancement stemming from the Jan. 22 incident. She faces a maximum of six years in prison if convicted of all counts, and bail was set at $1 million. The Yolo County District Attorney's Office streamed its news conference on Periscope.

[Seraphicaviary]

The greatest crime here is wasting good bacon.

[generally]

Not enough info yet, but my top guess is that she is a leftist who was planning to make this look like a rightwing crime. In other words, another hoax.

[beethovenfan]

The reason Muslims are perpetually pissed - they can’t eat BACON!!

[tomkat]

What I saw was video of her trying doorknobs, as in seeing if they were unlocked.

I saw her squeeze a tire on a bike or two, as if checking for inflation.

I did NOT see her carrying bacon.
I did NOT see her reaching into a pocket for bacon.
I did NOT see her separating pieces of bacon from a pack etc in order to leave a perfectly whole slice over a door handle as pictured in the video.

As said upthread, I don't trust a f'n one of 'em, and they've earned it.

[ml/nj]

I was in Davis 25 years ago. I don't remember seeing any mosques.

ML/NJ

[Leep]

I hope she learned a lesson.

Bacon grease would be harder to remove.

[RitchieAprile]

most Islamic centers have video surveillance.

messing with their signage or leaving ‘presents’ of this sort is just foolish.

[equaviator]

“Cal Graduate Arrested After Vandalism, Bacon Left at Davis Mosque”

Kevin Bacon is a Muslim?

[Bratch]

Kevin Bacon is a Muslim?

Actually, he's a 6th degree Muslim.

[Glad2bnuts]

How can bacon being in contact with the vicinity of a mosque, be as bad as the Mayor of Seattle and HIS HUSBAND be welcomed into a mosque to give the “State of the City” address? Would two proud sodomites soil one of the #1,000,000 holiest sites of Islam by being celebrated there? What kind of game are these Mohammedans playing?

[BenLurkin]

Obscene amount for anything short of murder.

[Ray76]

8th Amendment violation

[I want the USA back]

Killing and raping are ok, but a piece of pork, now that’s a real crime.

[cincinnati65]

So a hyphenate who chose to go to UC Berkeley commits a hate-crime against a mosque, for which there’s no real video evidence. Yeah, I’ve got to call BS on this one.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Without video proof, this DID NOT HAPPEN."

Many people here - even on this thread - have advocated this sort of thing, so why are you trying to pretend that this must be a false flag? I think it's stupid - bordering on mentally retarded - to give Muslims this kind of ammunition.

[ptsal]

Seems like it is on Russell Blvd across from the dorms....

[tomkat]

Many people here - even on this thread - have advocated this sort of thing
True

so why are you trying to pretend that this must be a false flag?
No 'pretending' about it .. see the linked video AND #24 above.

As to your ad hominem, I find it weak, as will most here.

/.02

[Steve_Seattle]

I’ll stand by it. Countless times, I have heard people here advocate the very sort of harassment that they are now calling a false flag. I think lying is disgusting, no matter who is doing it.

[tomkat]

Well, in the three minutes between our posts, it's doubtful you had time to compare/contrast the video and the aforementioned points in #24 above.
Hence, one is tempted to assume that you've chosen not to burden yourself with any possibilities other than your preconception.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Hence, one is tempted to assume that you've chosen not to burden yourself with any possibilities other than your preconception."

Preconception? I have SEEN these comments about taunting Muslims with pork, over and over. That is not the way to fight Islam. You fight Islam with reason, with facts, not with rubbing the doors of their mosques with bacon fat. I'm disappointed that my view seems to be so controversial.

If you oppose Catholicism, do you break into a Catholic church and destroy statues of the Virgin Mary? Well, maybe YOU do, or would excuse it. I think a better way would be to argue from the Bible.

Don't get mad when people accuse you of doing the very sort of thing that you have justified.