Posted on 08/21/2023 10:58:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
A lawyer representing the man who owns the flag said "no arrest has been made as of yet. My client will be pressing charges and will be filing a civil lawsuit against the individual."
A suspect has been identified in connection with the burning of a "Trump won" flag in Raleigh, North Carolina. After a reward was offered for information on the arsonist by John Kane on Twitter, which was then raised by Tim Pool, and again by Benny Johnson, Kane reported that he had reported the suspect to police.
"A gentleman from Lodi, California who does not want his name made public first identified the arsonist," Kane reported, stating that the identification was made using Strava, an app that records bike rides, and gps, which was timestamped and "correspond with the time stamps on the videos."
"I sent him $1,000 as promised," Kane said, "a few minutes ago and will be sharing his information with @Timcast and @bennyjohnson so that they can do the same. I am truly grateful to each of you for lending your audience and money to catching this arsonist."
James Lawrence stated that he is representing Kane. He told The Post Millennial that his client, "John Kane, sent evidence regarding the identity of the individual who twice set fire to his Trump sign to the Raleigh Police Department" on Sunday evening.
"My understanding," he continued, "is no arrest has been made as of yet. My client will be pressing charges and will be filing a civil lawsuit against the individual."
Raleigh Police could not confirm to The Post Millennial that a suspect had been reported, or a police report filed. On Friday, Kane shared an August 12 Nest surveillance video of a man on a bike stopping to kick the "Trump won" sign in his yard, and a few days later, on August 15, the man on the bike stopping to set the flag aflame at 4:19 am.
Kane offered $1,000 for information on the arsonist, which Pool then added $5,000 to. Johnson later upped it, bringing the total to $11,000.
"I'll add $5,000 to the reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of this arsonist," Pool said.
"I am offering $5,000. Reward is now + $10,000 for information on the violent criminal leftist who burned down a trump sign," Johnson added in a separate post. "We need to stand up against hatred. No more political violence in [America]."
Kane explained why it mattered to him, and why he put up the sign in the first place.
"I have been asked," he said, "why put up a sign that is effectively putting a target on your back for the radical leftists. The answer is embodied in an Alexandr Solzhenitsyn quote: 'The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.'
"@realDonaldTrump won in 2020," he went on. "@JoeBiden did not get 81M votes. Staying silent to this fact is a choice. It’s a choice with catastrophic repercussions, turning again to Solzhenitsyn:
"'In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.'"
Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned in a Soviet gulag, writing The Gulag Archipelago, which became a rallying cry for the opposition to communism. It also revealed how easy it is for a society to devolve into authoritarianism when individuals succumb to groupthink and engage in mob behavior.
‘The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.’ - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Good quote.
The Media-Dem Party will undoubtedly pay all legal bills, plus give him a reward, after all, with them Crime Pays.
STRAVA is an app cyclists use to track thier ride length, speed, elevation gains and location. The upload it so others can see it. They say “if it isn’t on strava it didnt happen”. If i was the prosecutor id use that exact line.
So he kicked the sign on August 12th, burned it on August 15th and burned another on Feburary 18th? That’s what the captions say on the “X” video posting.
Collectivists gonna collectivist - right up to the time it bites them in the @ss.
Not to mention the crime against fashion. Is he wearing longjohns?
Spandex cycling pants....................
I get angry whenever I see a leftist flag, t-shirt, yard sign or bumper sticker! Yet I will never destroy someone else’s private property!
I’ll bet a dollar that the arsonist is a professor, lawyer, doctor, or politician or some similar elitist from the professional class.
He’s got that pedo bear tat on his arm. Should be easy to spot this thug.
I thought that was legal. I remember a person who got away standing on the flag and got his photo taken. He was or became a teacher in college or someplace.
Also many scumtwats have done the same.
you mean he wasn’t a MAGA?
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”.My wonderful wife astutely said, if you are going to do something stupid, don't wear a smart watch.
Nice to know.
I figured it was an Italian cologne or a Greek liqueur.
And are there microchips in bicycles now?
I'll just bet two dollars that he's not a plumber or a tow truck driver.
Bkmk
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