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Fri Sep 24, 2021, 08:42 PM Sep 2021

DoorDash Driver With History Of Drug Abuse Harasses Gay Couple With Slurs

A Massachusetts deliveryman has been arrested by police officers on Friday, Sept. 17, after he wrote homophobic slurs in the food order of a gay couple living in East Sandwich, Cape Cod Matthew Butchard, a 27-year-old man from East Sandwich in Cape Cod, has been charged with criminal harassment after he scribbled homophobic slurs on the Subway sandwich delivery order of gay couple Todd Hermann, 62, and Steven James, 63, according to the Enterprise.

Butchard, in a video he posted on Snapchat, was seen delivering sandwiches to their residence before proceeding to scribble the image of a penis on their order as well as writing their names next to a homophobic slur. He reportedly placed the order on their doorstep and left.

Residents of the area have been harassed by Butchard on numerous past occasions. A female tipster who lived in the neighborhood said that Butchard has been known to “terrorize the town” in many incidents and that she hopes this report will stop his antics, The Smoking Gun reported. Butchard has reportedly repeatedly terrorized the gay couple prior to this arrest, in one incident he damaged their mailbox before threatening to spray-paint their cars. He has also spoken about the couple on social media, posting offensive material about their sexual orientation.

Butchard was previously arrested in 2017 for drug possession and shoplifting after he stole $50 worth of cigarette lighters and snacks from a Stop & Shop in Hyannis. After he was tracked down by the police, they found over 4.8 ounces of marijuana in his possession, according to Cape Cod Times. They also found 900 doses of LSD, 10 ounces of mushrooms, and hash oil in his possession. He told the police then that he made his living selling marijuana.

https://www.latintimes.com/doordash-driver-history-drug-abuse-harasses-gay-couple-slurs-487501

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DoorDash Driver With History Of Drug Abuse Harasses Gay Couple With Slurs (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 OP
He made his liveing selling pot. What were the 900 hits of acid about, party favors? marble falls Sep 2021 #1
This kind of coverage really annoys me. Saviolo Sep 2021 #2

Saviolo

(3,280 posts)
2. This kind of coverage really annoys me.
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 09:14 PM
Sep 2021

Dude has been arrested for drugs. He's a drug dealer, and they position THAT part like it's the bad thing, or that it's the root cause of the homophobia, or some common comorbidity.

The drugs don't make him homophobic, and the drugs don't make him a bad person. The homophobia makes him a bad person. The harassment makes him a bad person. Why is drug abuse in the headline if the story is about his harassment of not only the gay couple but also the rest of the community. The problem isn't that he's a drug abuser, it's that he's an abuser.

It's like they felt like they needed to make him sound worse because he's a drug dealer than he already sounded just for being a homophobic abuser.

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