By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-13 21:37:38 | Updated at 2024-12-13 23:51:11
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Man Arrested for Hate Crime That Targeted LGBTQ+ Pub in Downtown Santa Cruz
KSBW ^ | Dec 13, 2024 | Ricardo Tovar
Posted on 12/13/2024 1:27:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
Santa Cruz police said they arrested a man believed to have set fire and who carved a homophobic slur at a newly opened LGBTQ+ pub.
45-year-old James Eason was arrested and booked into Santa Cruz County Jail for a hate crime, arson and vandalism. He was already in police custody for an unrelated crime, said police in a media release.
Eason is believed to have gone up to The Neighbors Pub on the morning of Dec. 10. He allegedly carved a homophobic slur into the glass front doors. Evidence that he tried to set the building on fire was also collected, per police.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: santacruz
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1 posted on 12/13/2024 1:27:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Sound’s like the work of a meth head.
2 posted on 12/13/2024 1:29:50 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
To: Bullish
3 posted on 12/13/2024 1:32:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
A 45 y/o man doing all this to a gay bar?
Unless there is a back story, where someone at the bar has been giving him problems, it looks maybe he himself is gay and in fervent denial of it.
To etch the F Word (or anything) into a glass door takes time and dedication. He’s got time to waste like that?
4 posted on 12/13/2024 1:35:42 PM PST by lee martell
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