An Oregon man is behind bars dealing with costs after his neighbors reported that he was behind a number of racist, homophobic, and intimidating incidents that occurred within the final two years.
KATU reported that 46-year-old Jacob Bynum was charged with bias crime, stalking, and disorderly conduct in connection to a number of disturbances and confrontations along with his neighbors in 2023 and 2024.
Court docket paperwork state that in August 2023, Bynum blasted a tune known as “Trampling on the Zoo” from the American Historical past X soundtrack. The tune included the lyrics, “We wash ourselves in (n-word) blood, the white man marches on.”
Bynum’s neighbor, who’s half-Tongan, known as 911 and informed deputies that Bynum has a historical past of taking part in loud, racist music at his neighbors.
Two months later, police responded to reviews of explosions erupting in entrance of Bynum’s house. Investigators weren’t capable of decide whether or not the explosions had been gunshots or fireworks, however one other neighbor reported that that was the primary of a number of disruptive encounters she had with Bynum.
In October 2024, as police had been interviewing Bynum a few totally different incident, he admitted that he put in 2,000-watt develop lights on his roof and driveway and pointed the lights at her house in retaliation for her having solar-powered walkway lights in her yard.
The subsequent month, the lady mentioned that she was abruptly woke up by noisy music coming from Bynum’s house. When she went to confront him, he allegedly informed her, “It’s your flip to kill your self, why don’t you kill your self you psycho (anti-gay slur).”
The lady is a homosexual veteran, based on court docket paperwork.
Deputies additionally found surveillance video displaying Bynum pointing a pink laser gentle into the home windows of her house one night time in September 2023. Bynum was served a brief stalking order that very same month.
One other neighbor additionally accused Bynum of threatening conduct after he allegedly spoke to her on Nov. 27, 2024, and mentioned, “I’ll be getting my armory again legally in three months.”
A warrant for Bynum’s arrest was filed earlier this month, and Lincoln County deputies arrested him throughout a site visitors cease on Feb. 19.
