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| In order: David Joseph Zimmerman, Kasey Lane O'Donnell and Syrus Deville Durant |
Arrest your local vigilante scumbags, especially the grinning piece of trash on the left with the punchable face. I'd like to see Washington state make examples out of these lowlifes.
Shasta DA condemns local vigilante actions following arrests
by Maxwell Tedford, KRCR StaffFri, October 4th 2024 at 4:43 PM
REDDING, Calif. — The Shasta County District Attorney's Office filed charges against members of a local vigilante group after their arrests following a "To Catch a Predator"-style operation.
Three members of the vigilante group calling itself Redding Dads Against Predators (DAP) have been arrested because of what they allegedly did during one of their catches of alleged pedophiles.
The group formed in August as essentially a local grassroots version of 'To Catch a Predator'. Their escalating tactics have caught the eyes of many online, and thousands of followers. However, now police say it has led to both their arrests along with the arrest of the alleged predator they were trying to catch.
The DAP members arrested were David Joseph Zimmerman, Kasey Lane O'Donnell and Syrus Deville Durant. All three are facing multiple charges, including felony assault, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit a crime, battery and vandalism.
The Shasta County District Attorney's Office issued a statement regarding the vigilante group, announcing that charges have been filed against three of its members; condemning their actions:
"The Shasta County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against three members of a local Dads Against Predators (DAP) group, Kasey O’Donnell, Syrus Durant and David Zimmerman. The charges filed include conspiracy, false imprisonment by violence, battery, and vandalism.
These charges stem from an incident where three members of a local DAP group met with a person at Caldwell Park after O’Donnell communicated with the person. The person the three defendants met with is a person who has a mental disability. The defendants chose to prevent the person from leaving the location by taking his bicycle, yelling at him, damaging his bike, and physically assaulting him, resulting in him going to the hospital.
Vigilante justice has no place in our community. The actions taken by this particular DAP group to find “predators” is being done in a way which violates investigative techniques used by trained law enforcement and trained civilians to properly investigate and preserve evidence for successful prosecution. The actions of this particular DAP group are allowing individuals who they believe have a sexual interest in minors, to get away with an actual slap on the face rather than being prosecuted. The humiliation tactics used by this particular DAP group will not serve as a long-term deterrent, and it interferes with the proper investigation and successful prosecution of potential offenders.
DO NOT take action into your own hands. The District Attorney’s Office asks that the community provide tips and leads on potential crimes, including all information the community may have regarding child physical and sexual abuse or human trafficking, to Law Enforcement." ...
The police report states in the following days DAP members claimed *** was the aggressor. However, a video police say they obtained from O'Donnell's phone showed that *** tried to leave the scene multiple times, and not make a violent move until he was pushed and hit repeatedly by the DAP team. The video goes on to show that as *** began to fight back he was tackled from the back and hit in the head repeatedly with punches and kicks. Going on for several minutes until nearby security guards broke up the altercation.
