Police in Los Angeles have had to make a statement overnight, because some motherfucker has done what we all kinda had the urge to do: smash Donald Trump‘s ‘Walk of Fame’ star in Hollywood.
According to the cops, some bloke dressed as a construction worker smashed the symbol with a sledgehammer and tried to remove it from the sidewalk with a pickaxe.
The man began his work at 5:45am, and police received a call at around 6am.
Originally reported by Deadline, the man in question reportedly actually spoke to writer Dominic Patten, and told him his name was Jamie Otis.
He told the writer that he was planning on removing the star in order to auction it off to raise funds for the women who have recently come forward and said that the presidential candidate had sexually assaulted them.
11 women have now publicly come forward in the past few months and told press that Trump has previously groped or had inappropriate sexual conduct with them.
At a recent rally for his presidency, Trump told supporters that the women are lying, and he was planning on suing them after the election is over.
Otis’ attempt to remove the ‘Walk of Fame‘ star was not successful, but it’s deeefinitely the first time Trump‘s star has been vandalised: since the announcement of his running for POTUS, there has been multiple attempts to destroy it or graffiti over it. Earlier this year, a Nazi swastika was spraypainted on top of it.
USA Today are reporting that the star will be immediately replaced, with Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Leron Gubler saying:
“When people are unhappy with one of our honourees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways than to vandalise a California state landmark.Our democracy is based on respect for the law. People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property.”
Gubler also said the HCC intends to prosecute Otis to the “full extent of the law”, an action they would undertake “for any Walk of Fame star that has been vandalised.”
Photo: Deadline.
