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Title: Man charged with felony in Obama mural defacing
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chron.com
URL Source: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t ... ama-mural-defacing-4301303.php
Published: Feb 22, 2013
Author: Carol Christian
Post Date: 2013-02-22 22:10:38 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 5768
Comments: 15
A suspect has been charged in a recent defacing of a mural of President Barack Obama near a popular midtown restaurant. Michael Dale Kroetsch, 58, was charged Friday with felony criminal mischief in the 339th State District Court. He was not in custody late Friday afternoon, Houston Police Department spokesman John Cannon said. The charge against Kroetsch stems from an incident in the early hours of Jan. 28, in which someone defaced the larger-than-life mural with paint. Surveillance video of that incident helped lead police to file charges against Kroetsch, Cannon said. It was the second act of vandalism against the mural, which is on a building at Alabama and Travis, across the street from The Breakfast Klub. The first incident occurred early Oct. 16, when someone threw red paint onto the image painted by artist Reginald C. Adams. Following both incidents, Adams and Breakfast Klub owner Marcus Davis organized a public repainting of the image. The most recent repainting took place Feb. 13, when about a dozen volunteers helped Adams create a new image showing Obama holding a baby boy. The portrait was taken from a photograph of Obama taken in recent months at a town-hall rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Adams said. For this mural, Adams and his crew used only aerosol spray cans. "It's probably the largest mass-graffiti mural painted legally in Houston by non-graffiti artists," Adams said. Four days after the latest mural was painted, Davis detained a man outside the restaurant with open paint cans, but police could not charge him because no one saw him throw any paint, Cannon said. In a curious turn of events, Adams said he received an email Friday from the mother of the baby, letting him know she and her husband were "thrilled" their son was included in the mural. A friend of hers had contacted her after seeing a national television report about the mural being defaced and twice repainted by volunteers. The mother looked up the story online and made contact with Adams, he said. "This has been so fascinating how the vandalism has created all these new opportunities and relationships," he said. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Michael Kroetsch is asked to call Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8477), Cannon said.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
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An Obama voter, experiencing buyers remorse? I'd piss on a Romney or Obama bumper sticker, and I didn't even vote for them.
People should respect private property and leave such art alone. I don't care if the picture is of an idiot like Reagan, Romney, Palin, or whomever it is of. If the owner of the building likes the art, his or her right to have it there should be respected. I would guess someone motivated to do this never voted for President Obama. I would very much respect his or her opinion on him or anyone as I really do believe strongly in free speech; but a wanker with a desire to vandalize gets no respect from me.
No,that would require a functioning mind.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
You're the idiot if you try to belittle Reagan. He wasn't perfect,but he was the best president in either of our lifetimes,and the only one since Eisenhower that wasn't a crook.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Now you should know better by now, it was one of those racist Tea Party people!!
Leftards "greener" pastures ------ a place where their lack of intelligence isn't brought into question on every post!!
Only a dumb ass would put a picture of Obama on their building. Or a bumper sticker on their car. It says "I am the problem, target me".
You are welcome to your opinion on Reagan, just as I am to mine. He never impressed me. I will say though the Bushes did prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not the worst we can get saddled with.
You are a dumb ass if you invade someone's private property and attack his private property and free speech rights. Here I am arguing the conservative respect for private property, and you are coming across like a whiny little disrespectful kid. Anyone who comes onto my property to damage it better have their life insurance paid up.
I never said anything about being for destroying anyone's property. I just said the person is a dumb ass if they openly support Obama.
Including Nixon?
The man is running a store in the ghetto. Look at it as insurance against getting burned down. If he had put a picture of Romney up there during the election there is an excellent chance he would have been murdered and his store burnt to the ground.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I don't believe Nixon was really a crook because I think it was his posse that came up with Watergate on their own,but any SOB that comes up with Wage and Price controls is not going to get any support from me. The Dims hated him because he outsocialized them at their own game.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Would you turn in someone vandalizing your neigbor's property, even in this case? I don't think so. More than likely you would high five the guy.
Reagan grew the government and increase the debt and government spending. And he had troops in Beirut without a legitamate mission who were murdered in a terrorist bombing. I don't like this guy, but he does have my sympathy for going out the way he did with a debilitating brain diesease like Alzheimers.
Ever heard of a goofy-looking and just plain goofy SOB named Jim-Mah Cawtur? 22 percent interest rates ring a bell? The same fool that hired Cyrus Vance as Sec of State because Stalin was too busy making tea for Satan to take the job? The same guy that virtually destroyed the US military and had senior NCO's standing in line for food stamps and the US Navy almost out of business? Carter is why Reagan had to spend so much money. That freaking Dim fool. The world was a FAR more dangerous place with that cretin in the WH than it ever was with Reagan there. Carter should have been hanged,and still should. And he had troops in Beirut without a legitamate mission who were murdered in a terrorist bombing. While I agree US troops didn't have any real business there,Reagan sent them there as peacekeeping troops to try and keep the Arabs and Jews from doing what they do best,NOT as combat troops. AND.....,he pulled them out when they started getting murdered instead of sending them on the attack.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
An Obama voter, experiencing buyers remorse?
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
I don't care if the picture is of an idiot like Reagan,
#5. To: hondo68 (#1)
An Obama voter, experiencing buyers remorse?
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
#7. To: sneakypete (#4)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#6)
"Only a dumb ass would put a picture of Obama on their building. Or a bumper sticker on their car. It says "I am the problem, target me."
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
Here I am arguing the conservative respect for private property
#10. To: sneakypete (#4)
You're the idiot if you try to belittle Reagan. He wasn't perfect,but he was the best president in either of our lifetimes,and the only one since Eisenhower that wasn't a crook.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
I just said the person is a dumb ass if they openly support Obama.
#12. To: meguro (#10)
Including Nixon?
#13. To: A K A Stone (#9)
"I am the problem, target me".
#14. To: sneakypete (#12)
#15. To: Ferret Mike (#14)
Reagan grew the government and increase the debt and government spending.
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