He wasn’t doxxed, he was charged with a crime.
What was a Hawaiian monk doing in Western Australia???
When a witness confronted Lytvynchuk, he said “he did not care and was ‘rich’ enough to pay any fines,” according to the complaint.
Props to the author for quickly establishing this dude is the worst type of tourist to come to Hawaii and deserves little benefit of doubt.
Afterward, a man “brutally assaulted” Lytvynchuk, his defense attorney Myles Breiner told The Associated Press. Lytvynchuk declined to file a police report on the assault, the attorney said.
So his lawyer pinky promises he was horrifically beat up, but was just too noble to press charges? lol
He said his client is being treated unfairly because he’s a white outsider. “The vast majority of attacks on monk seal and turtle are by locals,” he said.
Oh fuck off.
Myles is a real sack of shit that seeks high profile cases. Everyone, regardless of how heinous their crime, deserves good representation and due process. But the purpose of defense is not to get guilty clients off on technicalities or public sympathy, it’s to make sure they receive a fair trial and that the legal consequences fit the crime. Getting you ass-whipped by a crowd stopping you in the act and the public being disgusted with you as a human being are extra legal consequences that inevitably occur when you commit a crime and have no bearing on your defense or eventual sentence.
Myles also takes on cases of Proud Boys and crooked cops/prosecutors, so he’s got a type.
“Honolulu-based defense attorney Myles Briener has gained recognition in Hawaii for taking on high-profile clients and cases in recent years. In 2021, Breiner represented Nicholas Ochs, the founder of Hawaii’s Proud Boys chapter who landed in court in 2021 after his participation in the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Breiner also represented Louis and Katherine Kealoha, a former police chief and deputy prosecutor in Honolulu who were indicted for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and drug charges in 2017.”
Also, Lytvynchuk has hired crisis management firm Red Banyan to try and suppress stories and push the narrative he was “saving turtles”.
So his lawyer pinky promises he was horrifically beat up, but was just too noble to press charges? lol
So this dude is absolutely awful and deserves all the hate he’s getting but there was video of the beat down (lemme try and find it, one sec). It isn’t worth pressing charges because no one in Hawaii will ever convict the perpetrator. It would be political suicide for a prosecutor to even try to advance a case. I think a local politician (state senator? Mayor?) even commended the guy.
ETA: found it! Apologies for the shit source (YouTube & NY Post) but it also includes video of the state senator giving a commendation with a delightfully amused attorney in the background
Oh sweet, it’s real? The state senator is right, and bless the people of Hawaii for coming down hard on that kind of behavior.
Yeah. It’s real. Really fucking awesome :D
I like how they blur out the seal in the video but visibly show him getting pummeled.
I’ll never understand how being doxxed became a thing when 20 years ago people would regularly have access to books that held the name, phone number, and address of damn near every person in their area.
While people’s information (in the US) is considered public information, doxxing is the act to distribute a specific targets information maliciously with the intent to harass or cause harm to them… their information was public but someone gave it out with that intent to a large group of people who’d otherwise not bother going through the trouble of obtaining the information. Now they have it readily available, it’s and easy target for the victim.
Well, there wasn’t a column in the white pages for ‘Seal Abuser’
I think the original Terminator movie did a good job illustrating how phone books could still be pretty unreliable
Sarah?
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Meh he’s rich enough to buy some new privacy
I blew a seal once when I was much younger. At least that’s what the mechanic said had happened!
I had that happen to me once, but I reassured them it was only ice cream on my face
Really needs to be standard practices to define fines and penalties as a percentage of a person’s income the way some places in Europe do. It would probably end up lowering fines a lot for normal people, but rich assholes like this guy might actually start to care when they’re having to pay enough money to actually notice.
But that would break the system that keeps the rich free and the poor incarcerated and even more impoverished. The rich suffer enough as it is when they commit a crime, judges consider how much their lawyers and crisis management PR firms bill and deduct that from the final fine. The poor get a free ride on public defenders. Won’t someone think of the rich’s feelings?!?
Oh no. Anyways….
Let me find my tiny ass violin
What’s an ass violin and do they make it in regular sizes??
Perhaps (I am not condoning doxxing) he should have thought about the consequences of his actions a little more. Seems like the comment about paying the fine incensed some people to take it further.
There’s always someone out there willing to out crazy you or at the very least stoop to a level of immorality that you won’t.
