On Stalking, Part 2
Note - this is the follow up to my previous piece on Stalker Bryan. To help me pay for things like this incredibly expensive trip to Detroit for TPUSA (which Stalker Bryan has followed me to!), it’s for paid subscribers. If you prefer to use CashApp or Paypal, just let me know your email address so I can upgrade you here on my end.
Six years ago, I tried to keep a database of women who were murdered by men, but it quickly proved to be too difficult; there were just so many of them. And the stories were often mundane, only notable because of the death. Ex-boyfriends who left unwanted notes and “gifts” on car windshields. Ex-husbands who were full of bitterness and hate. Strangers who can’t take no for an answer. Regular customers who start trying to communicate outside of work.
All normal and routine experiences, until they aren’t. Perhaps that’s why it’s difficult to get people to understand a stalker is serious.
When Bryan Betancur was arrested for breaking into an elementary school in August 2018, it wasn’t his first run in with the police or Baltimore County Public Schools. He had already been kicked out of his own BCPS high school for threatening to shoot it up. Bryan claims he was bullied, and the final straw was a girl in his class turning down his invitation to their junior prom. Even now, he insists his reaction was normal, as though everyone who didn’t get to take their crush to prom must have made similar threats.
Bryan further insists that he didn’t break into an elementary school, but that he went to visit his ex-girlfriend at her high school. In reality, it was still summer break, and the charges and court records are very clear that it was an elementary school. In court, his attorney told the judge that the FBI had sent JTTF agents to observe the hearing. Surprised, the judge repeated him. “FBI guys are watching him?”
The lawyer explained that Bryan kept posting “stupid shit” online. Five years later, it seems like very little has changed. Bryan still can’t stop fed posting, going particularly hard after Trump’s verdict was announced.