An LGBTQ woman in San Diego who placed a rainbow-colored pride fence on the edge of her backyard in June 2022, finally discovered who may have destroyed it for years.
Brittany Fuller, who lives in the Scripps Ranch district, hung around on Saturday with her partner in their backyard when both heard a loud sound.
They quickly assessed their home surveillance video, who showed two teenagers on an electric bicycle that threw apples and other fruits at the Pride -Hek.
Fuller, who identifies as a pansexual, managed to catch up with the young children in a nearby pedestrian crossing.
The police were called, but before they arrived, Fuller said they asked them why they destroyed the fence. She said their reaction was “absolutely soul shocking.”
'So these children told me that there are groups of children in high school who actively and openly hate LGBTQ children. They go so far that they pay people to harm the trothk, “Fuller told ABC 10 San Diego.
Fuller said the teenagers claimed that they had paid $ 20 to destroy the fence. They later told the police the same, the local outlet reported.
“I couldn't breathe. I felt that someone closed me, “said fuller and reminded her reaction to the alleged reason for the children.
Displayed: Brittany Fuller's Pride Fence in Scripps Ranch. She painted it in June 2022, but since then the local LGBTQ Land Mark has been a target for vandals
In the past two years the fence has been hit with paint, mustard, ketchup, eggs and even excrement
Fuller, who leads the Scripps Ranch Pride Council, was shocked by the reason for the children to destroy the fence
“Only the idea that a child accepts money to hate someone is terrible and I can't understand how we are here and how this happens,” she added.
Fuller, who leads the Scripps Ranch Pride Council, said that the two children were not arrested and released to their parents instead.
However, the police continue to investigate whether what the teenagers did is connected to the nearly 20 incidents of vandalism against the fence.
The police have previously indicated that they are investigating these incidents as possible hate crimes.
In the past two years the fence has been hit with paint, mustard, ketchup, eggs and even droppings. Pride flags placed along a nearby street were also torn and bent somewhere in July 2023.
Two days after Christmas, vandals threw about a dozen eggs to the fence.
They increased the Ante after New Year, when they cut a hole in an LGBTQ style inflatable Christmas tree on her property, causing it to be deflated.
The house of another woman in the neighborhood who is in the Scripps Ranch Pride Council has let people destroy her actual house, throw it on her door and throw water balloons.
The woman, who chose to use only her first name, stacy, ABC 10 said she received threatening phone calls before and after the incident.
“This is hatred with people and who they are and what represents them and that is not called,” Fuller said at the time.
