Summary
A man checked out 100 books from Beachwood Library in Beachwood, Ohio, covering Jewish history, African-American history, and LGBTQ topics, and later posted social media videos showing the books with captions referencing “cleansing” libraries before burning them.
Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative alerted the library about the posts.
The books were worth about $1,700. Since they are not overdue, the library will bill the man later.
Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.
Same as it ever was.
Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.
Pretty sure Destruction of Public Property is a crime in most jurisdictions.
Shows which way the police lean, doesn’t it?
Nazis gonna Nazi
And all the other nazis do not see nazis.
Americans gonna let them
Ohio let’s you check out 100 books at a time?
Sounds like a hate crime to me.
He doesn’t want us to read those book, by the same logic, would it be OK to cut off that mans genitalia because we don’t want him to reproduce?
It’s almost more shocking that the library allowed to check out all those books. There can’t be a legitimate reason to do so, even if he said he needed to reference them all for a thesis or something like that
Yeah the limit at my library is 14, which is more than generous even if you happen to be researching a topic for a report / thesis etc.
How is that not criminal destruction of property? Some of those books may not even be replaceable. 😠 You could also say criminal intimidation of protected minority groups by an obviously targeted political act.
Project Gutenberg is ensuring that all books are 100% replaceable. Don’t worry, this ignorance cock hasn’t done anything that can actually interfere with people being able to obtain and read any of the material he’s taken.
I think we may have different definitions for “replaceable”.
Digital copies are serviceable, they are by no means a replacement.
Anything digital can be made into a physical copy with almost comical ease. I don’t want this mouth breathing red hat to have the satisfaction of doing more than simply creating a minor inconvenience because everything he has done can be replaced in a few days. At his expense no less.
This fucking prick couldn’t read and unluckily could use fire, like a basic caveman.
He is probably less than even some cavemen. There are some bits of late cave art that have been interpreted as proto-writing. There were possibly literate cave people.
The library should be taking this douches nozzle to collections, and replacing the destroyed materials.
I think that’s the point. But legally they have to wait for them to be overdue. At least that’s my understanding.
Shouldn’t be too long, most libraries have a 4-wk lending period.
This should be charged as a hate crime or incitement
Terrorism
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1 year for every book seems an appropriate sentence
1 year for every book seems an appropriate sentence
No! An appropriate sentence would end in a period, question mark, or exclamation point!
Ouch you got me right in the pedantry
THEY DID IT AGAIN!
Throw the book at them!
republicans are swine.
