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Siwsan

(26,262 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 07:15 PM Jun 2017

Genesee County (MI) commissioner allegedly yelled ethnic slurs from pontoon boat

MUCH more at link. This guy is a real piece of work.

FENTON TOWNSHIP, MI -- A Genesee County commissioner woke a Fenton Township resident early on a Saturday morning by driving his pontoon boat back and forth in front of the man's house, yelling ethnic slurs and swearing at him, a police report states.

According to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office report obtained by The Flint Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request, Commissioner Drew Shapiro, R-District 6, was spotted driving a black Remington pontoon boat, honking the horn of the boat and blasting loud music outside the man's house on Silver Lake in Fenton Township around 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 27.

When the man walked out of his house to investigate the noise, a shirtless Shapiro, holding two bottles of liquor and flanked by a friend, began to make rude gestures and swearing at the man, yelling, "F*** you, Arab," the report states.

Shapiro's friend then threatened to urinate on the man's lawn, but stopped once he saw a neighbor approaching, said Genesee County Sheriff Robert J. Pickell.

The man -- who is in a relationship with Shapiro's ex-fiancee - told police the disturbances have been an "on-going issue" with Shapiro and that he did not want the situation to escalate, according to the police report.

By the time police arrived at the scene around 9:16 a.m., Shapiro had left the man's house, Pickell said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/06/county_commissioner_allegedly.html

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