Zhoie Perez, a ‘fringe’ YouTuber, was shot while she filmed herself outside a Los Angeles synagogue last Thursday. Perez was live-streaming a confrontation between herself and a security guard on her YouTube channel, ‘Furry Potato.’
What happened to furry potato?
YouTube star ‘Furry Potato’ is shot while live-streaming near LA synagogue; security guard arrested. A transgender YouTube personality who goes by the name ‘Furry Potato’ was shot outside a Los Angeles synagogue on Thursday after arguing with a security guard.
Is furry potato a transgender woman?
1. She’s a transgender woman. – Perez, 45, posted a video entitled “Furry Potato’s Coming Out” on Feb.20, 2018. It is one of her first videos on her YouTube channel. She says early on in the video that she wanted to end the rumors. “As you can tell I am a transgendered woman, that means, for those of you that have lived under a rock over the past ten years, uh, I was born a male body, female brain, and has decided to have the outside match the inside,” she says.
Was furry potato arrested for free speech?
“Furry Potato” YouTuber Zhoie Perez (Credit: Furry Potato/YouTube) US — Santa Clarita, Los Angeles. A YouTube star accused of making terrorist threats and using racial slurs while harassing military members at a Marine Corps recruiting office has pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Zhoie Perez of La Mirada, California, a 45-year-old man who identifies as a woman, centers his YouTube channel on “auditing” public locations for violations of free speech. Under his YouTube screen name “Furry Potato,” Mr Perez visits governmental properties and loudly makes controversial declarations and antagonizes public servants.
If he is escorted off the property or arrested, the public servants are exposed by Mr Perez on his channel for failing the free speech “audit.” Mr Perez describes himself as an “investigative journalist.” In one incident at a US Army Reserve Center in Bell, California, which he uploaded to YouTube on June 10, 2018, Mr Perez is seen on video calling a soldier “bootlicker,” and asking viewers to trace the man’s license plate and “dox” him.
- Doxxing is the practice of searching for and posting online an individual’s personally identifiable information, typically for malicious purposes.
- Two days later, on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, Mr Perez “audited” a Marine Corps Recruiting Office in Valencia, California.
- The recruiting office is situated near the food court entrance of Westfield Valencia Town Center mall.
According to several witnesses, Mr Perez made terrorist threats and yelled racial slurs at a black Marine Corps recruiter. As Mr Perez walked away from the location, he was arrested on the felony charge of terrorizing someone and causing fear. Bail was set at $75,000, and Mr.
- Perez was out by midnight.
- Santa Clarita Police treated the incident as a hate crime.
- A person threatened someone at the Marine Corps Recruiting office,” Lt Leo Bauer of Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station stated.
- This is considered a hate crime, since derogatory comments were directed at an African American recruiter.” In a negotiated deal, Mr Perez pleaded no contest on December 5, 2018 to one infraction count of disturbing the peace.
Four other charges against him were dismissed. Mr Perez was ordered to pay a $100 fine and a penalty assessment.
Was ‘furry potato’ shot outside a Los Angeles synagogue?
A transgender YouTub e personality who goes by the name ‘Furry Potato’ was shot outside a Los Angeles synagogue on Thursday after arguing with a security guard, according to police reports and social media footage.