{"id":15317,"date":"2026-01-16T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15317"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:29:00","slug":"officials-of-latinx-lgbtq-center-are-outraged-that-months-long-fecal-attacks-are-not-an-arrestable-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/officials-of-latinx-lgbtq-center-are-outraged-that-months-long-fecal-attacks-are-not-an-arrestable-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials of \u2018Latinx\u2019 LGBTQ+ Center Are Outraged That Months-Long Fecal Attacks Are Not an Arrestable Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is hilarious. And I thought homosexuals liked poop? Am I wrong? And lawlessness is all good until&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/latinx-lgbtq-dog-poop-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/latinx-lgbtq-dog-poop-attack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_2c07c16d-47a6-440a-85c3-bc6f1be7bebf\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Carlos Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The police said the fecal attacks fell into a legal loophole.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department has angered officials of the Latino Equality Alliance after saying that a man flinging bags of poop at their center is not criminally prosecutable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Mi Centro LGBTQ Community Center in Boyle Heights have been cleaning up small bags of dog poop being <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/southern-california-lgbtq-center-officials-outraged-over-continued-fecal-vandalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deposited<\/a> at the center for months. They say it&#8217;s an expression of hate-filled fecal vandalism against the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;This &#8220;legal loophole&#8221; has left the center and its youth vulnerable to continued harassment without consequence.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, the center <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/bell-leaders-denounce-repeated-dog-poop-attacks-on-lgbtq-youth-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a> an image of the dog poop in a post on Facebook that called the acts &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; as well as &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; Some of the poop was tossed onto the awning in front of the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Months later, a suspect was identified with the aid of surveillance video, but police reportedly told the center that the dog poop deposits &#8220;do not meet the threshold for criminal prosecution.&#8221; Because the man has left poop inside of bags, it only meets the far lower standard of a littering infraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This &#8216;legal loophole&#8217; has left the center and its youth vulnerable to continued harassment without consequence,&#8221; reads a statement from the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEA Executive Director Eddie Martinez told the media that police needed &#8220;substantial evidence&#8221; to prove the acts constituted a hate crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They said a bag of poop is not enough to be arrested,&#8221; Martinez lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell Police Department Chief Damian Velasco said at the same press conference that officers had contacted the suspect and were waiting to hear from him to determine &#8220;what the mindset is and what exactly is going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somoslea.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes<\/a> itself as serving LGBTQ+ persons of &#8220;Latinx&#8221; and &#8220;Latine&#8221; descent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is hilarious. And I thought homosexuals liked poop? Am I wrong? And lawlessness is all good until&#8230;? https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/latinx-lgbtq-dog-poop-attack By Carlos Garcia The police said the fecal attacks fell into a legal loophole. The Los Angeles Police Department has angered officials of the Latino Equality Alliance after saying that a man flinging bags of poop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15320,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions\/15320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}