CLOUD, Minn. — Prosecutors charged a central Minnesota man with a gross misdemeanour Wednesday but not a hate crime for allegedly having his teenage son dump bloody deer carcasses on the hoods of two cars owned by Somali-American men. The Stearns County Attorney’s office charged 62-year-old Daniel Dorian Knowlen of St. The complaint alleges that Knowlen watched as his 14-year-old dumped the skinned carcasses from their pickup on the cars parked outside a YMCA in St. According to the complaint, Knowlen told police it was “just being funny” but acknowledged he “probably could have” stopped his son. Authorities noted that placing deer carcasses on strangers’ cars parked at the YMCA — to be found by others — constitutes disorderly conduct, and that the act also was motor vehicle tampering.

Source: National Post November 29, 2018 00:45 UTC