Two rocks with threatening notes attached — not one — were found last week outside a broken window at the Design District apartment of Taylor Garrett, a gay Republican cast member from the The A-List Dallas.
Laura Martin, LGBT liaison officer for the Dallas Police Department, said today that a porter at the complex found the first rock in some mulch in the bushes. The porter looked up and saw broken glass on the door to Garrett’s second-floor balcony. The porter notified the apartment manager, who contacted a Dallas police officer who lives at the complex. It’s unclear when the porter actually found the rock, Martin said, but records show the officer filed his report last Friday morning and placed the rock into evidence.
Martin said the officer wasn’t initially able to contact Garrett, who has said he returned late last Thursday from Los Angeles, where he’d been filming for The A List. When someone from the complex finally got ahold of Garrett, they went onto the balcony and discovered a second rock with a similar note attached. They also discovered that the double-pane glass window was broken only halfway through, Martin said.
Garrett apparently kept the second rock, posting a photograph of it on Twitter later Friday along with a tweet that read, “My place is nice and breezy now thanks to a liberal.”
“Who the fuck do you think you are?” the note attached to the rock read. “You are not A-List. More like Z-List. You are nothing but a nelly twink trying to get attention by calling yourself a republican. You are nothing but an embarrassment to the gay community. Watch your fucking back you pathetic mother fucking twink.”
He also posted a photograph of the broken glass on the door. But Garrett’s name was listed only as a witness, and not the complainant, on the initial police report. Which meant it didn’t show up in DPD’s public online records, helping fuel speculation among gay bloggers that Garrett’s tweet was a publicity stunt in advance of the show’s Monday premiere.
Since then, Martin said, a detective working the case has left messages with Garrett, but as of this morning he hadn’t returned the phone calls. Garrett has, however, given an interview to The Huffington Post about the incident.
Martin acknowledged there are some notable discrepancies — such as Garrett’s tweet about a “breeze” versus the fact that the window wasn’t broken all the way though. In the end, though, she’s willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
“I wouldn’t have any reason to think that it didn’t happen the way he’s presented it,” Martin said.
The incident has been classified as criminal mischief, and not a more serious offense like assault, because the threat contained in the note wasn’t sufficiently direct, specific or credible, Martin said. And it isn’t a hate crime because Garrett appears to have been targeted because of his political affiliation or for other reasons, as opposed to his sexual orientation.
Police have no eyewitnesses and no suspects, Martin said, which means their investigation will almost certainly be suspended in the very near future.
Martin noted that based on the comments to stories online about the incident, Garrett has his share of haters. Garrett recently had lunch with Ann Coulter, whose slated appearance on The A-List has led to calls for a boycott of the show.
“Because there are so many people who don’t like him, I think it would be a shot in the dark trying to figure out who might have done that,” Martin said. “I don’t know who put the rock there. I don’t know who threw the rock. Who knows how that rock ended up there and how that glass was broken?”
I find it really sad that all things republican garner such attention. Every time a “liberal” is blamed for an offense, there is an outcry from the world that LIBERALS ARE EVIL! And yet, how many times a day are liberal people threatened, harassed, and even molested and no one takes a second to notice. Now here we have a supposed liberal making a supposed threat to a republican and the story won’t go away until someone is found and convicted. It tires me to witness such apocalyptic hypocrisy everyday.
why is this news? from what I’ve seen from posts on facebook alone, no one here is even watching more than the first 15 minutes of the show before turning it off – which is more than I’ve watched. between the Coulter boycott, and the other boycott for words spoken at a fund raiser – I think they’re finding out who the real A list of Dallas really are…which no, isn’t me, so before you say it, or that I’m jealous – I’m just making a statement. And I do love that it’s automatically a liberal who is at fault for this…the fact that they say he’s only trying to get attention by calling himself a republican…well that to me says it’s another republican who’s upset that he is 1. giving Dallas gays a bad rap & 2. giving Dallas gay Republicans a bad rap… I am a republican too, and I could care less about him, or what he claims to be, he’s not affecting my life in anyway, so why would anyone wanna give him steam to be in the media more than he is already trying to be??
I don’t understand why anyone would waste such a pretty rock, OR take the time to write and print out a note. He stands to be harmed more by Ann Coulter’s adam apple.
Meh….
There’s a better question than yours, Jett: why does anyone care enough about the program or the person in it to resort to such juvenile tactics? Whoever did this apparently isn’t man enough to deliver his message face to face. I suspect he’s probably afraid of getting the crap beat out of him by a cute young gay boy with perfect hair and makeup.
I believe the phrase, “Publicity stunt!”, comes to mind! Are any of these posers really from Dallas? Or are they just here for their “15 minutes” of fame???
James…..LOL..at the perfect hair and make up line. I don’t think we have heard the end to this story. BTW, I found some rocks in my front yard. Now if I can find a note and a right wing bitch….I’ll be set.
The rock thrower must be a typical bitter queen from Resource Center Dallas….LOL
Wait. There were two rocks, each with an identical printed note? So someone lobbed the rock and missed the window, couldn’t find the rock, went back home and made another? That seems like an awful lot of effort. Really sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
What happened to the Preston Hollow mansion he insinuated he was living in? Man, I’m not watching that show anymore! Hardly aspirational to christian republican youth.
Mike, as an indredibly young, incredibly christian, incredibly right wing and incredible gay man, I TOO refuse to watch the show as I don’t believe it is an incredibly positive role model for me. It is the 769 Club for me.
Just about every show on Logo can be used by conservatives to exploit the most outrageous parts of gay sub-culture. I think the worst one of all is the 1 girl – 5 other girls.
And yes I think these are publicity stunts too.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-LOGOs-A-List-Dallas/207693559267288
There’s a FB page o boycott how? I guess quit buying Absolut vodka and let them know why? lol
I”m glad that noone has bothered to give Scot the time of day with his stupid comment….all I’ll say – don’t start pointing fingers, because I know who you are refering to. and to agree with Wade – you’re right – hell, even their “documentaries”…and I do use that term loosely, really only show one side of it. Jack & James…you made me laugh, haven’t done much of that lately, so thank you!!
I LOVE YOU JACK E. JETT!!! Yes, I believe it is probably a publicity stunt organized while he was out of town and not sitting in his elaborate Preston Hollow home (section 8 neighborhood) with his hired help. LOL I have friends from out of state that watched a few minutes of the 1st episode and called me laughing because it’s horrible and they also feel it gives Dallas a bad image. Geee, I hope they find the rock thrower who printed up multiple notes in this elaborate plot to break a window which should be picked up by Channel 4. Oh, the humanity of it all.
HAHAHA I hope they find him too – I’d like to buy him a drink…or 12…hell, I’ll even buy him some printer ink, paper, go rock hunting…I mean….