#mag.pi

[nando161mando]

🚨COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 The Westboro Baptist Church is targeting Mag.Pi, the store where Laura Ann Carleton was murdered by Christian fascist Travis Ikeguchi over a Pride flag. They will be rallying at the Mag.Pi storefront as well as several other locations throughout the Lake Arrowhead community this weekend. On Saturday, they’ll be at Mag.Pi. Sunday and Monday they’ll hit multiple other spots in the community.

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[cannabiscomrade]

Lauri Carleton was an active ally for the LGBT community and she was murdered for displaying and defending the pride flag outside her store in California on Friday night (8/18/23)

Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” is survived by her husband and nine children in a blended family. She owned and operated the Mag.Pi clothing store in Cedar Glen. The unincorporated community in the San Bernadino Mountains is roughly 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.

An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn’t identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but spent time helping and advocating for everyone and was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting.

[autumngracy]

Conservatives: If you don't like our discriminatory business practices, then go open your own business!

Also Conservatives:

A Southern California business owner was shot and killed Friday by a man who objected to an LGBTQ+ Pride flag displayed at her clothing store, officials said. San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies responded to the Mag.Pi clothing store in Cedar Glen, Calif., at around 5 p.m. local time for reports of a shooting. Deputies discovered the victim, 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton, suffering from a gunshot wound. Carleton was pronounced dead at the scene, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The suspect, who was not identified by officials, fled the scene on foot. According to deputies, the man made "several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag" that stood outside Carleton's store before ultimately shooting her. Deputies were later able to locate the armed suspect, who was confronted by deputies and was killed in "a lethal force encounter," authorities said. No deputies were injured.

(Source: NPR)

[geezerwench]

Tributes are pouring in for a “beloved” California business owner who was shot dead by a man who complained about a Pride flag hanging at her store.

The unnamed individual killed Laura Ann Carleton, 66, at her business Mag Pi clothing store after making “several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store," the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies responded to the incident around 5pm on Friday following reports of shots being fired. The mother of nine children was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

The shooter fled the scene on foot but was later located by authorities near Torrey Road and Rause Rancho Road. The suspect, who has not been identified, was killed during “a lethal force encounter” with police.

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Why is the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office protecting this murderer's identity? It's been three days.

[werechicken]

Things are going to get worse while we have people in power reheating already blazing homophobia. They pour gas on the fire for votes.

[thoughtportal]

Updated 9:04 PM EDT, August 21, 2023

CEDAR GLEN, Calif. (AP) — A 27-year-old man killed by California sheriff’s deputies over the weekend after he fatally shot a store owner had ripped down an LGBTQ+ Pride flag outside the business and shouted homophobic slurs at the woman, authorities said Monday.

When deputies confronted Travis Ikeguchi on foot about a mile from the store Friday night, he opened fire on them, striking multiple squad cars, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus told reporters. Deputies returned fire and shot Ikeguchi, who died at the scene, Dicus said. No deputies were hurt.

Laura Ann Carleton was pronounced dead at Mag.Pi, the store she owned and operated in Cedar Glen. The small community in the San Bernadino Mountains is roughly 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.

“Investigators determined that prior to the shooting the suspect tore down a Pride, or rainbow, flag that was hanging in front of the store and yelled many homophobic slurs toward Carleton,” Dicus said during Monday’s media briefing.

Ikeguchi, who lived in Cedar Glen, frequently posted hate-filled content on social media, sheriff’s officials said.

The day before the shooting, Ikeguchi’s family had reported him missing to the sheriff’s department, officials said.

Several witnesses reported Carleton’s shooting and followed Ikeguchi while he ran away from the store, the sheriff said. The semiautomatic handgun used by Ikeguchi was not registered to him, and he did not have a license to carry a concealed weapon, according to officials.

Dicus said the investigation into Carleton’s killing was ongoing. The district attorney’s office will investigate the shooting of the suspect, as is standard practice with all lethal encounters involving law enforcement.

Carleton, who preferred to be called “Lauri,” is survived by her husband and nine children in a blended family.

An LGBTQ group in nearby Lake Arrowhead said Carleton didn’t identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. But she spent time helping and advocating for everyone, and she was defending her Pride flags placed in front of her shop on the night of the shooting, the group said.

There was an outpouring of support on social media over the weekend, with commenters expressing shock and sadness on the store’s accounts. Many included rainbow flag emojis.

The advocacy group Equality California said in a statement Monday that over the past year, it has recorded “a sharp increase in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric being expressed by far right extremists and hate groups — rhetoric which has resulted in physical intimidation, harassment, and acts of violence.”

Law enforcement agencies in several states have investigated the destruction of rainbow Pride flags as potential hate crimes in recent years.

[particularj]

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is violence.

We have a right to exist.

This is why we call it fascism, when politicians deny our existence, when we can’t say gay, when trans people are both not believed and vilified for being trans.

This is hate. Period.

[kp777]

Excerpt:

Ms. Carleton preached "love, acceptance, and equality," her daughter said, and those values were reflected in her store, Mag.Pi, where she carried a collection of personally curated, high-quality, and ethically sourced clothes, and sometimes her own designs.

[edawgfire]

😢 sad for her loss. Angry that people don’t understand hate crimes are still happening

[newsconduct]

Lauri Carleton Shot Dead: California Community Mourns the Death

Lauri Ann Carleton was a remarkable person whose unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community and commitment to advancing love, respect, and equality made her stand out in the world. Even in the face of persistent acts of vandalism and protest. She boldly flew a rainbow Pride flag outside her shop as the proprietor of the Mag.Pi apparel store in Lake Arrowhead, California. A man who had made…

[dallaslivenews]

Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts

The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. 

The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.

Officials said Ikeguchi had a history of sharing posts that were critical of the LGBTQ community on social media, including on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

While officials said they have not received confirmation on social media pages belonging to Ikeguchi, an X account that includes Ikeguchi’s full name was created in 2015. Throughout the account’s existence, posts were shared repeatedly using the suspect’s full name and at least one post included a California location, which corresponds with the suspect’s known state of residence.

Many of the account’s earlier tweets include references to Christianity and anti-LGBTQ sentiments. In June 2018, the account rebuked a Mastercard advertisement that featured model Elliott Sailors talking about LGBTQ inclusion.

“LGBT people need to stop asking the world for acceptance, instead they should start accepting Jesus Christ in their hearts and turn away from their false sexual identity that the devil deceived them to be!” the account tweeted,” calling LGBTQ inclusion “a cancer.” 

In August 2021, the account compared the user’s views on LGBTQ rights with his views on abortion, saying, “Abortion is a path to death for the unborn. LGBTQ is a path to death for the once who are already been born.”

In some of the account’s more recent posts — and as anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has become somewhat mainstream among far-right elected officials and media pundits — the anti-LGBTQ comments appeared to become more graphic and violent. 

On June 13, during Pride Month, the account posted a photo of a burning Pride flag with the text: “What to do with the LGBTQP flag?” The “P” added to the LGBTQ initialism appears to refer to “pedophile,” a trope that has resurfaced in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric over the last two years. 

Three days later, the account retweeted and condemned an image of a scissor cutting through the center of the “LGBTIQA+” initialism, which appears to advocate for gay, lesbian and bisexual people dissociating from the transgender and gender-nonconforming communities.

“This tactic is not going to solve anything. Where you are cutting off the legs of the octopus and can grow back another one,” the account wrote. “KILL THE OCTOPUS!! Not just its legs!!!”

More recently, the account retweeted several posts with anti-LGBTQ sentiments from right-wing provocateur Matt Walsh, who has over 2.4 million followers on X, and far-right cable news channel One America News Network, also known as OAN.

[joekellyotcglobalholdings]

A California Small Business Owner Was Fatally Shot Outside Shop Over a Pride Flag: 'This Senseless Act of Hate and Violence Is Unthinkable.'

A California Small Business Owner Was Fatally Shot Outside Shop Over a Pride Flag: 'This Senseless Act of Hate and Violence Is Unthinkable.' https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/store-owner-laura-ann-carleton-fatally-shot-over-pride-flag/457787 Laura Ann Carleton, a mother of nine, was shot outside of her store, Mag.Pi. via Entrepreneur: Latest Articles https://www.entrepreneur.com/latest August 21, 2023 at 09:21AM

[geezerwench]

Tributes are pouring in for a “beloved” California business owner who was shot dead by a man who complained about a Pride flag hanging at her store.

The unnamed individual killed Laura Ann Carleton, 66, at her business Mag Pi clothing store after making “several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store," the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies responded to the incident around 5pm on Friday following reports of shots being fired. The mother of nine children was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

The shooter fled the scene on foot but was later located by authorities near Torrey Road and Rause Rancho Road. The suspect, who has not been identified, was killed during “a lethal force encounter” with police.

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Lauri Carleton

I'm glad the cops made themselves useful and shot that fucker.

Once again, it's a man killing a woman. 

Once again, it's a man killing a woman who had an opinion.

Once again, it's a man murdering a woman who had an opinion hE DiDn'T LiKe;  that all people have rights, even people who are not white straight men. (Allegedly)

Didn't Lauri Carleton have #FreedomOfSpeech? Didn't Lauri Carleton have the #RightToLife? 

Not according to that piece of shit.

She wasn't even LGBTQ. She was a woman, married to the same man, for nearly 30 years with a blended family of nine children. She was an ally.

It's been three days. Why hasn't the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office released the man's name? Why are they protecting him? Who are they protecting? What are they hiding?

[jwood718]

Jonathan Franklin reporting for NPR's national news: California shop owner shot for displaying Pride flag.

"A Southern California business owner was shot and killed Friday by a man who objected to an LGBTQ+ Pride flag displayed at her clothing store, officials said. San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies responded to the Mag.Pi clothing store in Cedar Glen, Calif., at around 5 p.m. local time for reports of a shooting.

Deputies discovered the victim, 66-year-old Laura Ann Carleton, suffering from a gunshot wound. Carleton was pronounced dead at the scene, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The suspect, who was not identified by officials, fled the scene on foot.

According to deputies, the man made "several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag" that stood outside Carleton's store before ultimately shooting her.

Deputies were later able to locate the armed suspect, who was confronted by deputies and was killed in "a lethal force encounter," authorities said...

Carleton, who went by "Lauri,"...owned and operated the Mag.Pi clothing store and began her career in fashion at an early age. Carleton studied at the Art Center School of Design and had a long career in the fashion industry, including a 15-year run as an executive at Kenneth Cole, the site said.

Tributes continue to pour in honoring Carleton following news of the fatal shooting."

Full story

[lenbryant]

The way MAGA world is going.

[ravenpicks]

Rav.en vs. M.agpie!

How have you put wings on display? I wanna put my rav.en wings somewhere prettily but??? I don't know how to prop them without damaging them?

(all parts pictured are legal to own!)