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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 190 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Damn. So desperate to be a victim, he made victims of his own grandkids. Piece of trash. The ironic part is he was caught by the surveillance state he no doubt supported till now.

According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 100 points 11 months ago

This is MAGA/the Republican party in a nutshell. Getting people worked up and freaking out chasing imaginary LGBTQ+/Dem/woke bogeymen while their own members are literally harming children.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'll be curious if in 6 months time the whole affair will be ~covered up~/^dropped^

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Director position at the CDC just opened up

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 11 months ago

Trumped, if you would. I think the dictionary explaination of the term will change in the decades to come.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even assuming he wasn't a fuck faced idiot, what would framing some poor service worker even achieve?

Other than a sadist boner of course

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 21 points 11 months ago

He probably wanted to generate a story about a minority endangering his pure white grandkids, or just a simple scam against the company for a settlement.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Share this EVERYWHERE. Especially truth social. Over and over again

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine

Coke comes in pills now?