MAGA-Hat Clad Man Charged With Attempted Murder For Allegedly Slicing Man With Sword in San Francis
Source: Newsweek
By Gillian Edevane On 4/6/19 at 10:49 AM EDT
A San Franciso man has been charged with attempted murder, mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon following accusations that he slashed another man with a sword during a brawl over the assailant’s “Make America Great Again" Hat.
Leor Bergland, 30, was arrested Wednesday following a days-long police search in the city. The San Francisco Police Department said in a statement that officers had staked out the Bergland residence and devoted “round the clock” surveillance in an effort to arrest him.
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A rash of MAGA-hat related assaults has been reported in the few years since the 2016 presidential election, when the red cap became a symbol of allegiance with President Donald Trump’s more controversial policies.
Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, told Newsweek in a previous interview that the attacks—committed by and against people wearing the Pro-Trump garb—are indicative of the country’s polarized, divisive political climate.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/maga-hat-clad-man-charged-attempted-murder-allegedly-slicing-man-sword-san-1388123
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John Kadnom ? @JKadnom
1h1 hour ago
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So according to the article. Guy in MAGA hat was being assaulted by guy trying to steal/knock his MAGA hat off. Guy defends himself, and in leftard commiefornia he somehow is charged for attempted murder, mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon?
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? @otto_maddoxx
1h1 hour ago
Yes. Good reading.
During an argument, a man tried to knock off MAGA man's hat, and just like normal, the MAGA hat guy had a sword, because that's what we bring to roller skating rinks.
Agan, I can't compliment you enough on your good reading.
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Tim Apple
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52m52 minutes ago
I like how he ignores this part.
"Miles, who posted a picture of the bloody aftermath on his Facebook, said Bergland had been seen outside the skating rink earlier in the evening, where he was allegedly hurling anti-gay slurs at customers."
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5 APRIL 2019
SF NEWS
JAY BARMANN
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The SFPD says they had staked out the residence hotel where he'd been living, the Elk Hotel at Larkin and Eddy, and followed him to the restaurant. The Elk Hotel is an 87-unit supportive housing complex for formerly homeless, single individuals that is part of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic portfolio.
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Bergland was charged in two incidents in one week in Multnomah County, Oregon in October 2012, from which we get the mugshot below.
Both incidents happened in and around Portland, and it sounds as though Bergland may have been homeless at the time.
In one incident, Bergland was found "hunched over" in a man's van, and when the man tried to remove him and a struggle ensued, Bergland allegedly waved a knife at him. A few days later he was nabbed trespassing on the campus of Portland State University. He was charged, as the Chronicle reports via court records, with misdemeanor criminal trespassing, unlawful entry into a vehicle, third-degree theft, and felony criminal mischief, but the charges were ultimately dropped.
https://sfist.com/2019/04/05/sword-suspect-mugshot-oregon-bergland/
Leor Bergland, 30
