Story out of Sierra County, California:
Two female Yosemite High School students were arrested late Tuesday after media reports began to surface about their alleged racially-motivated vandalism of a car belonging to a coach at Yosemite High School.
Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Ward said in a release issued Tuesday around 9 p.m. the two girls may have been frightened after seeing media reports about the vandalism, including the Sierra Star’s details about the car being painted in racial and homophobic slurs.
“Initial media coverage of the incident may have scared the suspects into contacting the victim to try and apologize for their actions,” Ward said, “in the hope that they wouldn’t get in trouble.”
Many in the Mountain Area were outraged the coach, Victor Salazar, and his family were targeted when three of their vehicles were vandalized, including with feces and foul messages like a phallic object with the word “Trump” inside it painted on Salazar’s car. Cont.
Story from - Sierra Star
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