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March 12, 2021, 2:10 pm*
A Montana man was caught on a doorbell camera shouting homophobic slurs and general abuse at his neighbor who flies a flag reading “TRUMP LOST LOL” in front of his house. The house and flag belong to 36-year-old Tim Mielke, who identifies as gay and was just trying to return home in peace when his neighbor tried to demand that he take the flag down.
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“When are you gonna take your f—-t a– flag down?” Mielke’s neighbor shouts from across the street.
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“When you take yours down,” Mielke replies.
“F—ing queer. You’re in the wrong neighborhood,” says the neighbor. “How about you go over to a f—ing Biden neighborhood?”
The homophobic nightmare neighbor has been identified as Michael Challans after he was issued a citation by police for using “loud, profane and offensive language” against Mielke, according to the Independent Record in Helena. He’s scheduled to appear in court on March 15 to face a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
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Challans harasses Mielke for over a minute in the video, with Mielke responding in a calm and reasonable manner to repeated slurs and demands.
“You’re entitled to your opinion,” he says to Challans.
“Of course someone like you would say that,” Challans replies. “That’s what all you fucking f–s say.”
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In the end, Challans seems to try to start a physical confrontation, demanding that Mielke “come here” and “tell us what you stand for.” Mielke tells him to enjoys his evening before going inside to Challans calling him a “f—ing p-ssy.”
Challans’ mouth didn’t get any better when the Independent Record reached him for comment on the incident, calling the citation “r-tarded.”
“I don’t see how I could get a ticket,” he said. “I wasn’t even yelling, but was talking loud enough for him to hear me. How could anyone possibly get a ticket for using words?”
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He also tried to blame his own bad behavior on Mielke, saying that he hung the flag in the middle of a “Trump neighborhood” with over a dozen pro-Trump flags to provoke people.
“He is going to fly that flag and he expects no one will say anything to him?” Challans said. “I was in my own yard, and behind my fence. How could anyone get in any trouble for that? He’s just antagonizing people to say something to him and then he calls a cop. He causes problems.”
Of course, Mielke’s other neighbor, who was reportedly the man standing next to Challans as he flung slurs, flies his own anti-Biden flag that contains a “vulgarity” that the Independent Record declined to specify. Challans apparently has no problem with this and doesn’t consider it to be antagonistic.
This neighbor, Kevin Morley, adamantly refuses to take down the anti-Biden flag, even though it doesn’t seem like anybody has asked him to.
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“This is my neighborhood,” said Morley. “If you move in you will have to look at my stuff, if you like it or not.”
It would seem that Mielke feels similarly about his own flag, but refrains from yelling slurs at people about it.
*First Published: March 12, 2021, 2:09 pm
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