Go figure
Posted on 10/25/2023 10:43:11 PM PDT by Morgana
A Boston man with a lengthy criminal record faces charges in connection with an act of vandalism at a historic cathedral that left a 150-year-old crucifix with broken arms.
Michael Patzelt, 37, of Attleboro, was arraigned Wednesday in Boston Municipal Court on a slew of charges including assault and malicious destruction of property.
Prosecutors say the crucifix outside of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End sustained around $20,000 worth of damage.
'Boston police received a radio call for a person who was hanging on the cross at 1400 Washington Street,' a prosecutor told the court. 'He caused significant damage to the cross.'
A video circulated on social media shows the suspect, dressed in green and sporting a large backpack, grabbing the legs of the statue and swinging left to right before losing his grip and careening to the ground.
Patzelt is said to have broken both of the statue’s arms before police arrived and placed him under arrest.
Before learning of damage to the crucifix, officers responded to a report of a suspicious person who had knocked off a woman's headwear around 6pm on Tuesday.
Patzelt is accused of walking into a nearby store and knocking Tashana Watson's hat off her head as the mother shopped with her 11-year-old son.
Watson said she pushed the man 'like four times to get him away.
'And then he grabbed my hair and my hat and threw it. Then he tried to have a conversation, something to the effect of, just shoot me,' she told Boston 25 News.
Patzelt has multiple convictions on his record, which spans two states. This includes a prior prison sentence for assaulting an ambulance driver.
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Here’s hoping he serves a very long jail sentence!
All of those crimes are horrible, the acts of an empty head and a blackened heart, but ‘assaulting an ambulance driver’?
What a LOSER!
Go figure
I doubt it. Now, if it would have been a statue of St. George Floyd....
Friggin loser - I’m amazed democrats haven’t turned his type into a new creepy victim class with full benefits...
As a Catholic, I see this guy’s actions as one of a mentally ill - a very mentally ill person. This is apparent in his assaulting the woman before and the ambulance driver after.
He should be helped in a mental institution
Looks as possessed as the FBI’s Strzok!
They have and he is probably enrolled in Obama care, living on social security disability, has an EBT card and an Obamaphone.
Mentally ill and/or drug abuser.
These people need to be tried and executed. I’m fed up with the wanton lawlessness in this country.
“The judge referenced Patzelt’s criminal record, which included ‘seven pages of committed time’ and ‘a 10-page Florida record’ full of similar charges to the vandalism rap....”
Part Time Florida Man.
They might want to consider an exorcism. Man possessed by a demon clinging to Jesus.
Mark
The name sounds Jewish but since he’s homeless the chance of that is zero.
I suspect that his problems are more spiritual than mental, and the staff in a mental institution will be of limited help to him. He literally assaulted an ambulance driver; he symbolically assaulted Jesus. There's something really off about him assaulting the people whose help he truly needs.
Agreed. As is the case with many, many people committing clearly demonic crimes of late.
Democrats watched 'One Flew over the Cockoo's Nest' and used that movie to push for de-institutionalization, homelessness and to reap the financial benefits of an insane policy.
An eye for an eye an arm for an arm chainsaw sounds coming from back room.
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