A Wisconsin man was charged with a hate crime after cutting off his neighbor’s cable and claimed they didn’t deserve it because they were “illegal” Mexicans.
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The incident occurred last month at an apartment in Eau Claire where a cable worker visited Shannon Pearson’s apartment. Pearson accused his upstairs neighbors of being illegal immigrants and “should not be able to get cable.” However, during an interview with police, Pearson claimed the cable worker became scared and “cut” the upstairs neighbor’s cable. He added that he went to their apartment to confront them about their citizen status but was “pushed” down the stairs.
The employee told police their side of events and said that Pearson came outside, screamed “racist things” during the installation, and cut the wire. During his police interview, Pearson claimed his neighbors didn’t deserve to have cable and entered the country illegally.
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“I just don’t feel that they deserve cable. I’m sorry, I don’t. They’re illegal aliens.”
Police confirmed in a statement that the neighbors, identified as J.L and M.A., were not in the country illegally. Although it was not clear why he had an issue with his neighbors, Pearson said he was frustrated by “Mexicans” moving into the upstairs apartment monthly.
He was arrested and charged with felony criminal damage to property and obstructing an officer. The felony charge was upgraded since Pearson’s actions were labeled hate crimes. His court date is scheduled for Nov.28, and if convicted, he faces up to two years in prison.
Social media reacts to the crime and believed Pearson didn’t have the right to cut his neighbor’s cable.
Twitter users were stunned by Pearson’s actions and said he should’ve left his neighbors alone.
Is expected to be back in court November 28th. Good I hope he gets an early Christmas present of 2 years in prison.
The “illegals” in his mind are bad but he had no issue with lying, saying the cable repairman was the one who cut the cable, then lying that neighbors assaulted him— cat scratch fever is real (@ctscratchfever) October 22, 2022
Crazy what people do! He was an alien in their apartment where he had no rights to be in so why not a trespass charge also? I had an odd recent encounter of similar. Unsure why. Cant be that i moved my furniture where I chose months prior
— D. Biss (@Dee_loulou) October 22, 2022
According to the article, he said “Mexicans move in upstairs every month” Which means he’s probably been harassing every new tenant which is why they leave every month
— 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Chi Prez 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@MyP_Chicago) October 22, 2022