A woman found herself the target of a suspected hate crime in the sleepy town of Johnson City, Tennessee, the Johnson City Press reports.
Gaelyn Porter says she awoke early Monday morning when she heard someone shouting outside her house.
“Throw it out!” the person yelled.
When she looked out the window, a white truck sped off down the street. Thinking nothing of it, she went back to bed.
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When she stepped outside later that morning, she discovered a rotting cow carcass had been dumped in front of her fence and nails scattered all around her car.
“I don’t know what motivation they would have for doing something like this,” she tells the Johnson City Press. “No one here has any enemies. Why would they be so hateful?”
However, Porter suspects it may have something to do with the rainbow flags she had hanging around her front porch. She has a total of ten colorful flags flying on her property.
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Porter filed a police report and an animal control officer came to dispose of the carcass.
According to Porter, the officer told her he had never seen anything like it in his nearly 15 years of working for animal control.
Porter’s neighbors quickly rallied around her in support. A neighborhood group has begun selling rainbow flags for $5 a pop and is encouraging people to hang them in their yards, with proceeds going to the Tennessee Human Rights Campaign.
As for Porter, she says she’s not going to let the bizarre incident intimate her.
“I refuse to let something like this make me live in fear,” she tells the Johnson City Press. “I’m not going to take my flags down. In fact, I’m going to put up more, and I hope everyone else does, too.”
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h/t: Johnson City Press
Invader7
Rainbow flags all over Johnson City, TN… P.S. johnson is slang for penis…..Just saying…
Curtispsf
Wrap a rainbow flag around your “johnson” and STAND UP, all you Johnsons. The left should adopt Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land Is YOUR Land” as it’s protest mantra. The song was written in opposition to “God Bless America” which was first sung By Lady Gaga at the Superbowl halftime opening FOLLOWED immediately by “This Land Is Your Land”. Lady Gaga was seemingly paying homage to the patriotic hymn God Bless America but following it with “This Land Is Your Land” was a bit of protest slight of hand. Way to go, girlfriend.
Juanjo
Curtis – that comment makes no sense at all. Can you repeat it in standard English for those of us who do not speak tweaker?
Hermes
Juan – “This Land in Your Land” was originally written as a protest song, a response to the perfect America that was portrayed in “God Bless America” — once you know that, the rest of the post to which you responded makes perfect sense.
Kind thoughts.
Ref: http://www.chimesfreedom.com/2012/06/06/this-land-is-your-land-the-angry-protest-song-that-became-an-american-standard-woody-at-100/
ShowMeGuy
You go GUURL. Anytime you piss off some hicksville hayseeds……you’re living large.
ErikO
Fake news.
Heywood Jablowme
You’re a Trump supporter who pretended for months you were a Jill Stein supporter, so you know all about “fake news.”
JessPH
If that happens to me, not only will I hang more rainbow flags. I’ll paint my entire house with rainbow colors then erect a statues of Cher and Liza on my frontyard.
1EqualityUSA
JessPH Why, that’s so moooooving, simply bovine. Win some, lose udders. I’m milkin’ this one. Don’t use the verb erect, not in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Sluggo2007
What’s the surprise here? It’s Tennessee, for God’s sake!
1EqualityUSA
Dolly Parton is from Tennessee and she’s pro-us.