'Soul shattering' truth behind middle school gang attack on San Diego LGBTQ woman's Pride display

A LGBTQ pistillate successful San Diego who successful June 2022 enactment up a rainbow-colored pridefulness obstruction astatine the borderline of her backyard yet discovered who whitethorn person been vandalizing it for years connected end.

Brittany Fuller, who lives successful the Scripps Ranch neighborhood, was hanging retired Saturday with her spouse successful their backyard erstwhile some of them heard a large noise.

They rapidly reviewed their location surveillance video, which showed 2 teens connected an electric bike throwing apples and different fruits astatine the pridefulness fence.

Fuller, who identifies arsenic pansexual, managed to drawback up with the young kids astatine a adjacent crosswalk.

Police were called but earlier they arrived, Fuller said she asked them wherefore they vandalized the fence. She said their effect was 'absolutely soul-shattering.'

'So these kids told maine that wrong the mediate school, determination are groups of kids that actively and openly hatred LGBTQ kids. They spell arsenic acold arsenic to paying radical to deface the pridefulness fence,' Fuller told ABC 10 San Diego.

Fuller said the teens claimed they were paid $20 to vandalize the fence. They aboriginal told constabulary the aforesaid thing, the section outlet reported.

'I couldn’t breathe. I felt similar idiosyncratic sucker-punched me,' Fuller said, recalling her absorption to the kids' alleged rationale.

'Just the thought of a kid accepting wealth to hatred idiosyncratic is atrocious and I can't recognize however we are present and however this is happening,' she added.

Fuller, who leads the Scripps Ranch Pride Council, said the 2 kids were not arrested and alternatively released to their parents. 

However, constabulary are continuing to analyse whether what the teens did is connected to the astir 20 incidents of vandalism against the fence.

Police person antecedently indicated that they are investigating these incidents arsenic imaginable hatred crimes.

Over the past 2 oregon truthful years, the obstruction has been deed with paint, mustard, ketchup, eggs and adjacent feces. Pride flags placed on a adjacent thoroughfare were besides ripped retired and bent sometime successful July 2023.

Two days aft Christmas, vandals threw astir a twelve eggs astatine the fence.

They upped the ante aft New Year's, erstwhile they sliced a spread successful a LGBTQ-styled inflatable Christmas histrion connected her property, causing it to deflate.

The location of different pistillate successful the vicinity who is connected the Scripps Ranch Pride Council has had radical vandalizing her existent home, banging connected her doorway and throwing h2o balloons astatine it. 

The woman, who chose to lone usage her archetypal name, Stacy, told ABC 10 that she received threatening telephone calls anterior to and aft the incident.

'This is hatred astatine quality beings and who they are and what represents them and that's uncalled for,' Fuller said astatine the time.