Most of us aren't going to know the name Yamaris Marrero, much less who she is as a person. Based on her own actions, that's probably for the best for everyone's sake.
Marrero is one of a slew of people who have been arrested for vandalizing someone's Tesla.
In particular, she put gum on the car, which may not sound like the worst thing in the world until you find out that where she put the "large wad of gum" messed up the door mechanism to the tune of more than $2,600 in damages.
Now, she's facing felony charges since any act of vandalism doing more than $1,000 in damage is a felony in Florida.
But the way it's being framed is what's funny.
Andrew Gaffney has a fairly large account on X with more than 20,000 followers. His bio describes him as a doctor and touts his affiliation with academic institutions like Cambridge and Harvard.
In a post over the weekend, Gaffney questioned the charges and tried to claim this was about politics. "One thing should be clear: they will throw the book at people for actions, crimes, protests with the 'improper' political inflection," he wrote.
Except, as noted, Marrero actually committed a felony. It wouldn't matter if this was politics, resentment, or just mischief; her actions caused more than $1,000 in damages.
Gaffney is engaging in one of those favorite tricks of the left, which is to downplay the severity of a leftist's actions to make it look like they're the victim.
Meanwhile, where was he when people were prosecuted for felonies for simply taking an unguided tour of the Capitol on January 6? Sure, it might have been one thing if the authorities had just gone after those who destroyed property, like breaking windows or whatnot, or those who took things while there, but they didn't. They went after anyone who even stepped into that building that day.
Those people did far less than nearly $3,000 in damage to someone's car simply because they didn't like the guy who built it.
Everywhere I look, people are pretending vandalism isn't any big deal, like it's something we shouldn't be bothered by at all. Gaffney makes it out like this felonious act of vandalism was nothing more than putting a sticky note on someone's windshield and calling them a mean name. Others seem to argue that it's justified because Space Man Bad.
Throughout it all, though, it's nothing more than a repeat of what we saw in the Summer of 2020 when leftist mobs burned neighborhoods in almost every major city to the ground, then took up donations for bail money when rioters were arrested.
The left will invariably downplay leftist acts of criminality as something else entirely. That's because they don't think their crimes matter, only their cause. They can rationalize anything in their attempts to resist the Trump administration, Elon Musk trying to undermine their paydays, or anything else that's a threat to their progressive ideological goals.
But reality isn't that easily manipulated. The truth is still the truth, and no matter how much they try to shape it, vandals are still criminals and are prosecuted not for their motivations but for their actions.
Pretending otherwise won't change it.
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