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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:00 PM Aug 2016

NY man convinced "pro-Hillary hate crime" behind burning of his giant red, white & blue lawn "T"



http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/staten-island-mans-yuuuge-trump-sign-set-on-fire.html

A Staten Island Trump supporter’s gigantic red, white, and blue T lawn ornament went up in flames early Sunday morning.

The incident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday on a New York island that Donald Trump won with an astounding 80 percent of the vote. The homeowner, Sam Pirozzolo, said his neighbors knocked on his door to alert him that the 12-by-8-foot foam sign was ablaze. The FDNY put out the flames, which, thankfully, did not damage Pirozzolo’s home. The NYPD is investigating the crime as an arson; the sign appears to have been doused in gasoline.

Pirozzolo said two smaller pro-Trump signs disappeared from his property last week, too. “I assume it was committed by a pro-Hillary supporter,” Pirozzolo told the Staten Island Advance. “I hope that this incident (the fire) is elevated from an arson to a hate crime, because that’s how I see it since it was done on my private property.”
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NY man convinced "pro-Hillary hate crime" behind burning of his giant red, white & blue lawn "T" (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2016 OP
Is he sure his Klan buddies didn't mistake it for a cross? sofa king Aug 2016 #1
No. That's a lower-case 't' . . . Journeyman Aug 2016 #4
I do not condone vandalism of any kind Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #2
I pity the fool Capt. Obvious Aug 2016 #3
What a maroon. mwrguy Aug 2016 #5
I wouldn't be shocked if he did it himself. Zynx Aug 2016 #6
Well.....the "T" could stand for "Todd." msanthrope Aug 2016 #7
Rotflmao onecaliberal Aug 2016 #8
That's not arson grubbs Aug 2016 #9
Its ugly IMHO! I would not want that monstrosity next door to me or in my riversedge Aug 2016 #10
It was done by a real Christian jmowreader Aug 2016 #11
The local reporter asked what it stood for. geek tragedy Aug 2016 #12

Xipe Totec

(43,872 posts)
2. I do not condone vandalism of any kind
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:09 PM
Aug 2016

I think that every one of us who respects the rule of law and the first amendment should be outraged by this vile act of hate.

Let the man express his opinion. Let us ridicule that opinion, but never celebrate the destruction of his property, or his right to express an opinion.

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
11. It was done by a real Christian
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:01 PM
Aug 2016
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousand of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

-- Exodus 20.4-6
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
12. The local reporter asked what it stood for.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:21 PM
Aug 2016

He hesitated for three seconds before admitting it stood for Trump, before claiming it also stood for "tolerance"

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