...I can't find much sympathy either.
I don't believe his neighbor about the victim's willingness to let other have their opinions.
The displays were ostentatious & provocative and the guy was looking for an argument in a grand fashion. Keep shoving his opinion in others' face and he was bound to get his argument.
Unfortunately, he found an argument with a crazy and it got him killed.
I guess I sympathize with the wife. She certainly didn't deserve widowhood like this.
But, I honestly don't care about the guy, undeserved death notwithstanding.

Absolutely no room for this crap in the US that I hope Democrats are working to shape.

I said the killer was crazy to have acted like this.
I never said I approved.
In fact my post title says the exact opposite.

I think the attacker is out of his mind & a murderer.
Have no idea how you got that I promote violence.
I just don't care about this particular guy.

you condoned the murder. I was only expressing how I feel about it.

Of course, there is the assumption that the attack was politically motivated.
It may not have been but the attacker still killed a guy in a fight, including aggravating circumstances.
One can't head stomp someone unless they are already down & defenseless.
The attacker is in big, big trouble.

Murder is not okay like you said.

the question would be, why would someone not have sympathy for a murder victim? He was living his own life and did nothing to provoke such levels of violence. Frankly, I have sympathy for anyone in the victims case. Who they voted for or what kind of tacky garbage they decorate their property with is not the switch that flips my sympathy on or off, so I have to ask the question.

I don’t condone political violence- (even though I have been very tempted to do it myself, my better angels have prevented action, so far) - but we don’t know for sure from this if the victim was attacked for his Drumpf support or some other reason or if he started the fight. This was Fux News so you can assume half of the story is missing and the other half misleading.

A guy like that doesn't know how to back down, and if he got in the face of someone who had made an offhand negative comment or he thought "didn't belong" and that person was already pissed or had an aggressive response reaction, a fight would not be unlikely.

Curb-stomping is not an unheard of reaction by bullies or gang members who grew up like Kegsbreath or the Proud Boys - where beating the crap out of anyone who offended you is the mark or a privilege of "virile Manhood".

On edit, it's not that I'm making an excuse, but this isn't the first time this sort of crime has occured.
The only reason this is making the news is because the guy was a local controversial personality.
When a drunk uncle decides to do a beat down on an uppity YA nephew who "disrespected" him at a block party and curb stomped the young man into the hospital in a coma with a severe concussion, cracked shoulders and upper back spine damage, it doesn't make the news.

And if he was stomped on the head it was not self-defense.

It was murder, regardless of the reporting source.

I would damn sure be certain they weren’t getting up to finish the job.

It serves as the California counterpart to the New York Post, and is owned by News Corp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Post

News Corporation, referred to as "News Corp," was started in 1980 in Australia. It was founded by Rupert Murdoch, who led the company in its publishing, in both news and books, as well as television. These were all published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, allowing the new and growing company to gain popularity worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp

We may not know for a long time, if ever, what precipitated this event. Now two lives are forever changed.

That's it.
No excuses, politics or qualifications.

Murder cannot be justified.

who was most recently registered to vote as a Republican.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/28/prior-allegations-of-violence-ptsd-cited-in-court-docs-against-suspect-in-trump-house-assault/

This sad story may have nothing to do with politics.

I wondered, since they never directly mentioned a motive - or the political party of the attacker. But they sure implied it was politically motivated.

than anything.

TY, hpd!

Like gun shooting incidents, poor mental health is frequently a root cause.

Not the brightest bulbs in that neighborhood. The attack was probably unjustified, but people are getting pushed to their limit and have had it with ignorant obnoxious MAGAts. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.

I have a limited bandwidth of give a fucks and one maga loon stomping out another maga loon doesn't pass the bar.

True.

Just as disgraceful is that the reprehensible right will run this into the ground with lies about ‘the left’ being ‘violent.’

seems to be a neighborhood beef with a 32 year old suffering from PTSD.

Can't imagine what that does to property values.

he lives in a "librul" state without the death penalty.

Having PTSD is no excuse to punch a 69-year-old man in the face and then kick him in the head twice when he's on the ground.

I hope he's charged with either 2nd degree Murder, or Manslaughter.

more violence.

a registered R Vet with PTSD.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21275786

What ridiculous coverage. Oh, NOW Trump supporters are worried about violence, and NOW the reporters are worried about it. NOW we are supposed to worry about innocent victims, and to see Trump supporters as the innocent victims. The implication in the story is that someone opposed to Trump is the murderer. That may be true, but nothing in the report supports that.

But this was inexusable. I don't even care about the motive or perpetrator. Wrong is wrong. I don't have to like the victim to say that. Condolences to family and friends.