"Intimidating" Trump Sign Leads To Arrest

JANUARY 17--Claiming that he was “intimidated” by a pro-Trump political sign and flag attached to his next-door neighbor’s fence, a Florida Man tore the items down and tossed them into an adjacent lake, according to police who arrested the registered Democrat.

Police accuse Lee Jonathan Farber, 55, of “forcefully ripping the sign and flag from a wooden fence” Tuesday morning. Farber reportedly “did not like the pro Trump political signs” that had been screwed into 67-year-old Leon Pierce’s white picket fence.

Pierce, a registered Republican, told TSG that he has affixed a rotating collection of spray-painted signs to his fence with pro-Donald Trump and anti-Joe Biden messages. The sign that landed in the lake read “Eight days to go and fuck you Joe,” while the flag was a “Trump 2024 Fuck Your Feelings” model.

The Trump signs, Pierce said, had perturbed Farber for more than a year and he responded with his own pro-Biden signs. On the day Farber allegedly tore down his signs, Pierce added, his neighbor “was acting very radical.”

In the process of removing the sign and flag, Farber allegedly broke Pierce’s fence. Farber, who threw the Trump items into a lake across the street from the Largo residences, caused $130 in damages, according to a complaint charging him with misdemeanor criminal mischief.

During a police interview, Farber “admitted to these actions,” cops report, “and advised that he felt intimidated by the signs.”

Farber was booked into jail Tuesday evening and released the following day on his own recognizance. A judge has ordered him to have no contact with Pierce.

Pierce filed a petition Wednesday seeking a protection order against Farber, but that request was denied, without a hearing, by a Circuit Court judge. (1 page)