#Travis Ikeguchi

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🚨COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 The Westboro Baptist Church is targeting Mag.Pi, the store where Laura Ann Carleton was murdered by Christian fascist Travis Ikeguchi over a Pride flag. They will be rallying at the Mag.Pi storefront as well as several other locations throughout the Lake Arrowhead community this weekend. On Saturday, they’ll be at Mag.Pi. Sunday and Monday they’ll hit multiple other spots in the community.

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The guy who killed a woman over a rainbow flag has been identified.

Surprise- he was your typical homophobic christian republican.

You can see a thread of them here.

#travis ikeguchi #homophobe #homophobia #republican #republicans #Lauri Carleton #tw: homophobia

[geezerwench]

NOT her brother, you tools. 🙄

This is what the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department was hiding. Estranged son of a Florida cop who wanted to kill cops.

Travis Ikeguchi, a "christian," shot and killed Laura Ann Carleton for displaying an LGBTQ Pride flag.

There's no hate like christian love.

"This was part of a Republican-led stochastic terrorism campaign. It's doubtful that this will be the last death at the hands of the Republican Party's radicalized foot soldiers— be they organized fascist militant groups or random individual terrorists."

#travis ikeguchi #Laura Ann Carleton #christian #christian nationalist #right wing nut job #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #right wing #anti semitic #anti lgbtq #religious zealot #republicans #republican terrorism #domestic terrorist

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Insanity! I wonder what they'll find on the killer's electronic devices and who that info will connect him to.

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The man who shot and killed the store owner last week over her display of a pride flag outside her store was a far-right conspiracy theorist who shared deeply anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic content on his social media accounts. Travis Ikeguchi, 27, shot Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday after “yelling many homophobic slurs” about the store’s pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday.

#news #usa #homophobia #gun violence #death #murder

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Updated 9:04 PM EDT, August 21, 2023

CEDAR GLEN, Calif. (AP) — A 27-year-old man killed by California sheriff’s deputies over the weekend after he fatally shot a store owner had ripped down an LGBTQ+ Pride flag outside the business and shouted homophobic slurs at the woman, authorities said Monday.

When deputies confronted Travis Ikeguchi on foot about a mile from the store Friday night, he opened fire on them, striking multiple squad cars, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus told reporters. Deputies returned fire and shot Ikeguchi, who died at the scene, Dicus said. No deputies were hurt.

Laura Ann Carleton was pronounced dead at Mag.Pi, the store she owned and operated in Cedar Glen. The small community in the San Bernadino Mountains is roughly 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.

“Investigators determined that prior to the shooting the suspect tore down a Pride, or rainbow, flag that was hanging in front of the store and yelled many homophobic slurs toward Carleton,” Dicus said during Monday’s media briefing.

Ikeguchi, who lived in Cedar Glen, frequently posted hate-filled content on social media, sheriff’s officials said.

The day before the shooting, Ikeguchi’s family had reported him missing to the sheriff’s department, officials said.

Several witnesses reported Carleton’s shooting and followed Ikeguchi while he ran away from the store, the sheriff said. The semiautomatic handgun used by Ikeguchi was not registered to him, and he did not have a license to carry a concealed weapon, according to officials.

Dicus said the investigation into Carleton’s killing was ongoing. The district attorney’s office will investigate the shooting of the suspect, as is standard practice with all lethal encounters involving law enforcement.

Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” is survived by her husband and nine children in a blended family.

An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn’t identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. But she spent time helping and advocating for everyone, and she was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting, the group said.

There was an outpouring of support on social media over the weekend, with commenters expressing shock and sadness on the store’s accounts. Many included rainbow flag emojis.

The advocacy group Equality California said in a statement Monday that over the past year, it has recorded “a sharp increase in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric being expressed by far right extremists and hate groups — rhetoric which has resulted in physical intimidation, harassment, and acts of violence.”

Law enforcement agencies in several states have investigated the destruction of rainbow Pride flags as potential hate crimes in recent years.

#article #LGBTQ #california #AP

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The man who shot and killed the store owner last week over her display of a pride flag outside her store was a far-right conspiracy theorist who shared deeply anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic content on his social media accounts.

Travis Ikeguchi, 27, shot Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday after “yelling many homophobic slurs” about the store’s pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday.

The shooter fled the scene but police officers tracked him down later on Friday. When confronted, police said in a press conference, the 27-year-old fired at multiple patrol vehicles with an unregistered semi-automatic handgun before he was shot in what was described by officials as a “lethal force encounter.”

Authorities said they are continuing to investigate the murder as a possible hate crime. While they believe the shooter acted alone, authorities are continuing to look into the possibility that he was affiliated with  a hate group.

But a review of 27-year-old’s social media accounts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and the far-right social network Gab, show that the shooter had fully embraced a wide range of conspiracy theories—from claiming the 9/11 attacks were staged to suggestions that former first lady Michelle Obama is a man to denying climate change. He also posted content opposing gun control measures.

The shooter spent much of his time online sharing anti-LGBTQ content, reposting and responding to content shared by right-wing figures like commentator Matt Walsh and fringe networks like One America News. His pinned tweet, posted in June, simply showed a rainbow flag on fire with the caption: “What to do with the LGBTQP [sic] flag.”

On Gab, one of his pinned posts was even more explicitly threatening to the LGBTQ community. “We need to STOP COMPROMISING on this LGBT dictatorship and not let them take over our lives,” he wrote. “Stop accepting this abomination that the government is forcing us to submit to these mentally disordered tyrants.”

Another pinned post on Gab featured a link to a video entitled: “When Should You Shoot a Cop,” along with the caption: “There will come a time that we have to do this.” While the shooter’s X profile remains active, his Gab profile was removed late on Monday. X and Gab did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The majority of the suspect’s posts are infused with an overt Christian nationalism, which quickly gives way to virulent antisemitism in much of the content he shared online.

The shooter only followed 19 people on X, including One American News, former President Donald Trump, and conspiracy theorist David Knight, who once worked with Alex Jones. The shooter also followed and boosted rightwing professor and conspiracy theory promoter Jordan Peterson, antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and the right-wing satirical website the Babylon Bee.

While law enforcement continues to look into why the shooter carried out the attack, Carleton's daughter, Ari Carleton, told NBC on Monday that her family “doesn’t care” about him.

“We will continue to steer the narrative away from him and towards my mother and honoring her. He is irrelevant,” she told the broadcaster. “The media must stop glorifying these individuals by giving them this platform.”

Laura Ann Carleton, who was a well-known fashion designer in Los Angeles and operated two clothing stores, was also known  for supporting the LGBTQ community. 

“[She] spent her time helping and advocating for everyone in the community,” the Lake Arrowhead LGBTQ group said in a tribute on their Instagram page. 

Carleton, who preferred to be called Lauri, showed her support by putting small rainbow flags in flower pots outside her store and when they were stolen, she would replace them with even bigger ones, her friend Melissa Lawton told CBS.

Carleton is survived by Bort Carleton, her husband of 28 years, and nine children.

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Source Link: Man Who Shot Store Owner for Flying Pride Flag Was a Far-Right Conspiracist

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#California #Pride Flag #Murder #Laura Ann Carleton #News

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Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts

The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. 

The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.

Officials said Ikeguchi had a history of sharing posts that were critical of the LGBTQ community on social media, including on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

While officials said they have not received confirmation on social media pages belonging to Ikeguchi, an X account that includes Ikeguchi’s full name was created in 2015. Throughout the account’s existence, posts were shared repeatedly using the suspect’s full name and at least one post included a California location, which corresponds with the suspect’s known state of residence.

Many of the account’s earlier tweets include references to Christianity and anti-LGBTQ sentiments. In June 2018, the account rebuked a Mastercard advertisement that featured model Elliott Sailors talking about LGBTQ inclusion.

“LGBT people need to stop asking the world for acceptance, instead they should start accepting Jesus Christ in their hearts and turn away from their false sexual identity that the devil deceived them to be!” the account tweeted,” calling LGBTQ inclusion “a cancer.” 

In August 2021, the account compared the user’s views on LGBTQ rights with his views on abortion, saying, “Abortion is a path to death for the unborn. LGBTQ is a path to death for the once who are already been born.”

In some of the account’s more recent posts — and as anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has become somewhat mainstream among far-right elected officials and media pundits — the anti-LGBTQ comments appeared to become more graphic and violent. 

On June 13, during Pride Month, the account posted a photo of a burning Pride flag with the text: “What to do with the LGBTQP flag?” The “P” added to the LGBTQ initialism appears to refer to “pedophile,” a trope that has resurfaced in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric over the last two years. 

Three days later, the account retweeted and condemned an image of a scissor cutting through the center of the “LGBTIQA+” initialism, which appears to advocate for gay, lesbian and bisexual people dissociating from the transgender and gender-nonconforming communities.

“This tactic is not going to solve anything. Where you are cutting off the legs of the octopus and can grow back another one,” the account wrote. “KILL THE OCTOPUS!! Not just its legs!!!”

More recently, the account retweeted several posts with anti-LGBTQ sentiments from right-wing provocateur Matt Walsh, who has over 2.4 million followers on X, and far-right cable news channel One America News Network, also known as OAN.

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Suspect named in fatal shooting of California store owner over a Pride flag

Police identified a man Monday who shot and killed a California business owner last week after he allegedly took issue with a Pride flag she had displayed at her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, California. Sheriff’s officials told NBC News that the killing is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Travis Ikeguchi, 27, was responsible for shooting Laura Ann Carleton, 66, to death after…

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#Florida #Sanford #Seminole County

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#oppression with a gun

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Suspect ID'd in Killing of California Woman Shot for Displaying Pride Flag

HOMOHATRED KILLS ALL

STOP VANILLA ISIS

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Suspect, 27, who shot and killed mom-of-nine outside her California store after argument over LGBTQ flag is identified as Travis Ikeguchi

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Matt Lavietes at NBC News:

Rainbow Pride flags have become as common on storefronts in some metropolitan areas as “help wanted” signs as LGBTQ people increasingly gain visibility and acceptance in American society. The prevalence of the decades-old symbol of unity and equality is arguably part of the reason Friday’s fatal shooting of a California business owner, allegedly for displaying a Pride flag at her shop, was met with overwhelming shock, as well as an outpouring of grief from LGBTQ advocates, politicians and celebrities from across the country.  But in parallel to the Pride flag’s having become commonplace, the symbol — which was introduced at the 1978 Gay Freedom Day march in San Francisco  — has been increasingly smeared by conservative media and right-wing online personalities.  The far right has repeatedly linked the flag to the decades-old trope that links gay and transgender people to child abusers who want to “groom” or sexualize children, a trope that has recently had a resurgence.  “The pride flag does not deserve our respect or deference,” right-wing provocateur Matt Walsh declared in March to his 2.4 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Nearly all of the most depraved attacks on children, tradition, and common sense in modern society happen under the hideous banner of the pride flag.” A day later, Walsh dedicated an over hourlong episode of his podcast, “The Matt Walsh Show,” which is produced by the media company The Daily Wire, to the Pride flag. The episode was titled “The Pride Flag Deserves Our Disrespect.” Chaya Raichik, who runs the far-right X account LibsOfTikTok, has repeatedly prompted conversations among her nearly 2.5 million followers that appear to take aim at the Pride flag. “Imagine walking into your kid’s elementary school and this is what greets you,” she wrote on X in June, along with an image of what appear to be teachers wearing rainbow Pride clothing and a person dressed in drag. “What do you do?” When asked about the post, Raichik said in a message to NBC News, "Why are you comparing anyone who criticizes the progress pride flag being shoved down the throats of children, to a violent murderer?" And in June, after the Biden administration raised the Progress Pride flag, a version of the flag meant to be more inclusive of transgender people and queer people of color, next to the U.S. flag at the White House for LGBTQ Pride Month, Fox News ran a headline on its website suggesting the flag symbolizes pedophilia.  “White House flew controversial new transgender flag that promotes grooming and pedophilia, say critics,” the headline read. Fox News changed the headline shortly after the article was published.  Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender advocate and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic who has researched hate speech against the LGBTQ community, said Friday’s killing of Laura Ann Carleton in Cedar Glen, California, didn’t surprise her in light of the online rhetoric from far-right figures.  “They have blood on their hands for inciting violence against the community,” she said, specifically referring to Walsh and Raichik. “There’s always a place for reasonable disagreement and criticism of any community, but this goes far beyond that and has long exceeded any kind of reasonable criticism into explicit hate speech.” Walsh and Fox News didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. 

[...] A Pride flag was taken down and burned this year outside a City Hall building in Tempe, Arizona. And even New York City — arguably the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement — hasn’t been immune: In February, a woman got out of her car and approached a rainbow Pride flag hanging outside a restaurant and set it on fire, and in June, Pride flags were torn down and damaged at least three times outside the Stonewall Inn, the site of the iconic 1969 Stonewall uprising.  As violent acts and rhetoric surrounding the flag have ramped up, some lawmakers and officials across the country have simultaneously tried to restrict the flag on government property. [...]

The efforts to ban the Pride flag coincide with a historic number of anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced in state legislatures this year, many of which would restrict art forms associated with the LGBTQ community and the teaching of queer issues and identities in schools. More than 490 anti-LGBTQ measures have been introduced in legislatures this year, 78 of which have become law, according to a tally by the American Civil Liberties Union.  Caraballo said the historic level of proposed anti-LGBTQ legislation plays a critical role in inciting violent anti-LGBTQ acts, such as last week’s fatal shooting. A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which is handling the case, said the incident is being investigated as a potential hate crime.

NBC News explains why the killing of Laura Ann Carleton by a far-right raging homophobe over her display of the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag outside the Mag.Pi store is fueled by an anti-LGBTQ+ animus toward both the traditional Pride Flag and especially the Progress Pride Flag (and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in general).

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