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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:15 PM Jul 2020

Couple charged with hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural

A white California couple has been charged with a hate crime after they were seen on video defacing a Black Lives Matter mural, according to a statement from the Contra Costa District Attorney's office.

Two people, identified by the district attorney as Nicole Anderson, 42, and David Nelson, 53, were seen on July 4 painting over the B and L in the word "Black," which had been painted in yellow, with black paint.

In the video, the man identified as Nelson can be heard saying, "There is no racism. It's a leftist lie," and, "No one wants Black Lives Matter here."

When a woman could be heard asking, "What's wrong with you?" the man replied, "We're sick of this narrative, that's what's wrong. The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism. It's a lie."

He was wearing Trump 2020 garb and yelled "Make America Great Again."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/couple-charged-with-hate-crime-for-allegedly-vandalizing-black-lives-matter-mural/ar-BB16uT9R?li=BBnb7Kz

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Couple charged with hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
HOPEFULLY they both spend a year in county jail as the article says. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #1
And the fact that they felt emboldened do do it in broad daylight Dream Girl Jul 2020 #2
Good. Hopefully this will hurry this pair of bad losers Hortensis Jul 2020 #3
She has a restraining order against him. He should be punished for violating it. Nevilledog Jul 2020 #4
A year of public service removing graffiti from public buildings. LakeArenal Jul 2020 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. HOPEFULLY they both spend a year in county jail as the article says.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jul 2020

In the same breath these folks say there is no racism and they hate Black Lives Matter...amazing how stupid and ugly and racist they are.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
2. And the fact that they felt emboldened do do it in broad daylight
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:55 PM
Jul 2020

They clearly felt it was within their right to do it.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Good. Hopefully this will hurry this pair of bad losers
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:11 PM
Jul 2020

along their very slow path to acceptance of reality. Not necessary for them to be happy about the real America, just unwilling to go back to jail and unwilling to lose more friends and jobs.

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