A man left an 8 foot slash in the Baby Trump balloon that was brought to the Alabama-LSU football game to protest Donald Trump’s cheer-seeking visit to friendly territory.
Oh, the humanity!!
Raw video of the suspect’s arrest:
A towering "Baby Trump" balloon -- which has become a popular symbol for critics of the president -- was knifed and deflated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday during President Donald Trump's visit to watch a collegiate football game.
A few dozen people were gathered in Monnish Park protesting the president's visit to the Alabama-LSU football game a half-mile away and holding various anti-Trump signs when a disapproving man approached the helium-balloon with a knife and slashed an 8-foot-long gash in its back. There were still two hours to kickoff in the college town when "Baby Trump" quickly deflated out and the balloon-stabbing suspect attempted to flee the scene, organizers said.
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Hoyt Deau Hutchinson, 32, was apprehended by police at the scene and arrested and charged with felony first degree criminal mischief. He was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail and held on a $2,500 bond.
He’d posted a video on Facebook hours before the game, saying this:
"going down [there] to make a scene ... I'm shaking I'm so mad right now," he said. "I'm fixin’ to pop this balloon, without a doubt."
After he was arrested and release on bond he said this:
"Some liberals tried to come to my hometown and start some trouble. That ain’t happening," Hutchinson said in the video, wearing a Trump 2020 shirt. "I did get arrested. I got charged. That’s all right. I’d do it again given the opportunity."
He started a GoFundMe drive and plead for ‘restitution’ for his legal defense and has raised over $22,000 for his defense so far. Only Republicans would support someone who knowingly committed a felony and bragged before and after the fact.
If you want to report Hoyt Hutchinson’s GoFundMe campaign to them (for posting before the fact he was going to do it, knowingly committing a felony, and using GoFundMe’s platform to raise legal funds after the fact, which should be against their terms of service):
CLICK HERE TO REPORT THIS GoFundMe CAMPAIGN
I don’t want to post a link to his fundraiser, but you can:
GOOGLE (for link to include in reporting this to GoFundMe):
Restitutions for Baby Trump Stabber — GoFundMe
Here’s what I reported to GoFundMe (you’ll need to grab the GoFundMe fundraiser link to paste in the box where they ask for the URL):
This suspect posted a Facebook video bragging about committing this felony (for which he was arrested and charged) before he committed it yesterday.
Then he posted his GoFundMe fundraiser to raise legal fees on Twitter after he was release on bond.
We shouldn't allow criminals to raise legal defense funds when they've bragged before the fact and intentionally committed felonies, should we?
Thanks to DRo for this Tweet. The video is hilarious!:
Let’s hope the ‘restitutions’ he’s pleading for are part of his sentence and he loses it all to the Baby Trump folks.
The organizers had raised $8000 towards the $4000 cost of renting Baby Trump.
There are no reports yet about the condition of Baby Trump, undergoing treatment at an undisclosed location.