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Clearwater man pleads not guilty to vandalizing LGBTQ+ pride mural
South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | 03/14/2024 | Shira Moolton

Posted on 03/14/2024 5:47:26 PM PDT by simpson96

A 19-year-old man accused of vandalizing an LGBTQ+ pride mural in Delray Beach pleaded not guilty on Thursday, though only after some confusion in court led the judge to issue a warrant for his arrest.

Dylan Brewer of Clearwater was arrested on Feb. 12, a week after police said he performed burnouts on the pride mural in a dark pickup truck with a President Donald Trump flag attached. Witnesses and surveillance cameras recorded the incident, Brewer and the license plate, but Brewer left before officers arrived, according to the probable cause affidavit.

He faces one count of felony criminal mischief over $1,000 and one count of reckless driving. (snip)

Rand Hoch, president and founder of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, told the Sun Sentinel (snip)

“Here’s a guy who was caught on video, two passengers identified it as him, and one of them stated that he had the car retrofitted so it could do more damage doing burnouts,” Hoch said. “One would think he would say, ‘Yeah, I did it,’ and throw himself on the mercy of the court and see what they do for sentencing.”

The Human Rights Council helped the city pay for the mural initially, Hoch said. He said he considers himself a victim in the case.

In 2022, Alexander Jerich, 20, of Lake Worth Beach pleaded guilty to the same charges Brewer is facing for defacing the same mural in 2021 while driving in a birthday rally for Trump. He was sentenced to probation, which recently ended, and was ordered to write a 25-page essay about the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Hoch described the sentence as a “slap on the wrist.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: lgbtq; mural; pride

Rand Hoch, in 1988.

1 posted on 03/14/2024 5:47:26 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

It’s ok for those commie bastards to tear down all of our national statues and monuments to our heroes, deface them with red paint, etc, for years and nothing happens to the perps.

But deface a symbol of perversion and you are dead.


2 posted on 03/14/2024 5:56:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The hypocrisy of the lefties knows no bounds.


3 posted on 03/14/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: simpson96
an LGBTQ+ pride mural

I've never understood just what it is they're proud of.

4 posted on 03/14/2024 6:00:23 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: simpson96

He should call his burnouts kinetic performance art.


5 posted on 03/14/2024 6:02:15 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: simpson96

jury nullification


6 posted on 03/14/2024 6:02:15 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: simpson96

write a 25-page essay about the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting


https://studycorgi.com/pages/25-pages-free-essay-samples/

what is the magic of 25 pages?


7 posted on 03/14/2024 6:03:23 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: simpson96

https://ivypanda.com/essays/pages/25-pages-essay-examples/

What does a 25 page essay look like? Go on reading if you want to know the answer! A 25 page essay word count is 6200 to 6250 words (double-spaced 12 pt.). This is a good size for a graduate-level essay or even for a research paper. There are 62 to 83 paragraphs in a paper of 25 pages.


8 posted on 03/14/2024 6:05:08 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Exactly.


9 posted on 03/14/2024 7:06:59 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: simpson96

He was just expressing himself on a public street full of graffiti


10 posted on 03/14/2024 8:35:15 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: simpson96

What...... no donuts.... what a piker.


11 posted on 03/14/2024 10:08:55 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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