Posted on 03/14/2019 11:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Police in Arizona said an 18-year-old woman admitted to slashing the tire of a random SUV because she saw one of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats inside, The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday.
Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Vincent Lewis said the woman admitted to slashing the tire “because she saw a hat with a political message inside the vehicle which she disagreed with.”
The car belonged to Nick Dugas, a retail security manager, who noticed something didn’t seem right after leaving the parking lot of Paradise Vally Mall.
He discovered a slash in his tire and turned back to find the security footage of the parking lot.
Dugas told the newspaper that footage showed a car pull up next to his. Four women got out and two peered into his truck, where they reportedly spotted one of Trump’s signature red campaign hats resting on the console.
Approximately seven minutes later, the women returned and got back into their car before the driver and front passenger got out again, according to the newspaper.
The front passenger could be seen scanning the parking lot as the driver squatted next to Dugas’s truck.
Footage reportedly showed his SUV suddenly dropping on the left side before the women got back in their car and left.
It cost Dugas $300 to replace the tire and he missed his mother’s birthday dinner because of the delay, he said.
“No one has a right to destroy property because they don’t agree with someone else,” Dugas told the newspaper. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine being the victim of pure hate because of my belief.”
Dugas recounted how he started “picking the pieces apart” of the footage in an attempt to find the culprit.
He noticed that the driver was holding a distinctive red beverage from Dutch Bros. Coffee so the security manager walked across the street and asked the manager.
The woman came into the coffee shop often so Dugas checked the business’s Instagram feed and found the women among its followers. He turned over their names to the Phoenix police.
The driver who slashed the tire was cited for criminal damage, a Class 2 misdemeanor which is punishable by up to four months in jail and a $750 fine.
Lewis told the newspaper that police did not release her name because she was not booked.
Dugas wrote in a court statement that he wanted to forgive the woman rather than “spill hatred onto you like you did to me.
“Rather than wish upon you the same fear you wished upon me that day. But I really hope that you are listening. Just because I have a different yet equally as important view as you do, it doesn’t EVER give you the right to spew hate, cause fear, and interrupt someone else’s life."
The “MAGA” hat, a symbol of Trump’s 2016 campaign and reelection bid, has sparked controversy and confrontation since before his election.
Police in Martin County, Fla., are investigating after a school bus aide allegedly grabbed a Trump hat off the head of a student.
A bar in New York City disciplined an employee who refused to serve a customer donning the cap.
Doesn't hateful Trump supporters deserve to be punished for their racist and hateful political views?
Probablya Laquisha or Shaquanda type name.
F all this forgiveness crap. Hit back with everything at your disposal. Take her car, her home, her wages, everything. Maybe then she’ll grow up and stop imposing her will on others.
Yes, Christ told us to turn the other cheek. He did NOT say to stand there and be slapped silly.
Nick the "security" manager needs to learn a little situational awareness or at least some OpSec and not leave his "trigger" hat in plain view.
What Bible quote says no justice for crime?
This ought to be good.
Hat-e crime
Another case for being the “gray man” in public. Support whom you like. Attend all the rallies you like, but don’t leave yourself or your possessions a target.
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. — Proverbs 21:15
Hue and Cry, Caning, Stocks, Pillory, Gibbet, and Gallows...........MAGA
Yep.
I’d like to slash Zachary Greenberg’s tires. /s
If she had slashed the tire of an Obama supporter, she would have been booked.
They’ll be marching in the streets with swastikas soon
she should pay for the tire and labor and for messing up this guys’ schedule....and make a public apology, and then have probation and if caught again with any misdemeanor, jail time...
While deciding on which new type of rum I would try today, some old, insane demonRAT bitch looked at my hat and started to give me 'what for' with the ugliest face I've seen in quite a while.
I looked at her, shook my head and walked away.
She grabbed my jacket and screamed so loud that the store manager came over and intervened. I play golf with the store manager, and he knows that while I'm a Trumpster I don't get into strangers faces and cause problems.
She went on one of the nastiest, foulest rants that I've heard in ages, and the manager told her if she didn't quiet down and leave that he would call the police.
She went silent, left her cart and walked out.
To be 100% honest, I kinda hoped that she'd keep it up so I could testify against her {I've been the defendant too many times, I kinda like to testify for Dan Troop}.
We are a nation gone mad. . . .insanity at its finest.
Just like Islam.....................
BINGO !!!
That’s exactly what I Posted a while ago on the Thread about the Massachusetts that’s riding the Deportation Hiway.
STOP BEING SO NICE TO THEM !!! Press the Maximum Charges, send them to Court, Jail time, BIG Fines, Public Hanging, Drawn & Quartered, The Rack, well I think Y’All get the idea...
Even in my conservative Florida Panhandle, I will not wear political hats, shirts or use stickers on my cars.
Too many nutjobs...................
You know what i would love to see, freight trains that taggers have painted big red MAGA letters on, like on a 100 car train.
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