Wasco mayor Alex Garcia was allegedly caught trying to meet a minor by a group of vigilantes who recorded themselves confronting and assaulting the official.
Local leaders are now calling for the 34-year-old mayor’s immediate resignation. He has not yet been charged with a crime.
On July, 24, a Facebook group called “Bakersfield Crime Watch” posted video footage of the incident showing Garcia, the first openly gay elected official in Wasco, a Bakersfield suburb, arriving at a prearranged location, purportedly to meet a 15-year-old boy he had been communicating with on Sniffies, a gay dating app.
Garcia Allegedly Showed up to the Meeting with ‘Condoms, Marijuana, Sex Toys and Poppers’
Davonn Bradley, the man who posted the video, said Garcia showed up with condoms, marijuana, sex toys, and amyl nitrate, known as “poppers.”
Bradley, told a local news outletthat he and a man he identified as his brother had been posing online as teens in …