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"Everybody knows that the couple that drinks together, and defaces memorials to dead children together, stays together, right? As the Sun Sentinel reports, one loving pair spent their Sunday evening in Parkland, at the site of February’s tragic school shooting.
Vodka and pro-gun sentiments may have spurred a couple into vandalizing the mass shooting memorial at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to police reports.
Michael Shawn Kennedy, 37, of Hollywood, and Kara O’Neil, 40, of Fulton, N.Y., were arrested late Sunday on suspicion of removing or disfiguring a tomb or a monument, a felony offense.
As he was being arrested, Kennedy said, “I ripped down the anti-gun banner because I am pro-gun,” according to a deputy’s report.
The tokens of love and mourning were part of a tribute at the school to the 17 students and staffers killed and the 17 injured in Parkland on Feb. 14.
When confronted by deputies about the trove of mementos in his backseat, Kennedy, the self-proclaimed Second Amendment enthusiast, claimed that he and O’Neil were bringing the items TO the high school, rather than taking them—and O’Neil claimed the same. Both insisted that they were planning to build their own memorial to the 17 lives lost in Nikolas Cruz’s six-minute massacre.
Problem was, it was painfully obvious that they were full of it.
[…] deputies didn’t believe the couple and wrote that the items were inscribed and clearly marked and were placed at the site by other people, and not O’Neil or Kennedy.
The items that were allegedly stolen — including the banner; three bears; a Parkland 2017 basketball trophy for first place; framed poems; lawn ornaments; a red stone with the phrase “Never Again” on it and American flags — were found in the back seat of the Cadillac, according to reports and photographs released by the sheriff’s office.
A shadowbox held a picture of each person who was murdered, an image of an eagle with its head down that represented the school’s mascot, and a border of tiny silver angels...(it was) inscribed, “Dedicated to MSD, from Pompano Beach High School NHS.”
Don’t mean to judge a book by its cover, but these two don’t look like they’re in the National Honor Society of ANY high school..."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/27/1752594/-Yes-really-Florida-couple-faces-felony-charges-for-defacing-Parkland-memorial-while-drunk?detail=emaildkre
Apparently no additional charges were filed for open container of chilled vodka, no DUI charges, no expired tag charges, and only $1,000 bail each, if I read it right.
