Bungie wins $500,000 from ‘racist shitstain’ who harassed and threatened Destiny 2 community manager
A Destiny 2 player who subjected a Bungie community manager to threats, harassment, and racist abuse has been ordered to pay the studio more than $489,000 in damages as a result of his behavior. The incident occurred after the community manager shared some art created by UhMaayyze, a Black Destiny 2 and creator, which the ruling says «incensed» defendant Jesse James Comer and led him to start «his campaign of racist, stochastic terrorism» against the CM and Bungie.
The full ruling was shared on Twitter by paralegal Kathryn Tewson, who described Comer pointedly as «a racist shitstain of a human being» who engaged in «sociopathic conduct» against the Bungie employee and their family. Based on details in the ruling, the descriptor fits: Using an anonymizing service, Comer called the community manager's personal line multiple times after he shared UhMaayyze’s work on social media, leaving «hideous, bigoted voicemail,» and demanding that Bungie create a Destiny 2 mode in which players would kill people of color.
Comer them moved on to the CM's wife, «carpet bombing» them both with «racist text and voice messages» before letting them know that he knew where they lived: He ordered a «virtually inedible, odiferous pizza» from Dominos and had it sent cash-on-delivery, with instructions to «knock at least five times» because the CM would purportedly be wearing headphones and needed loud noises in order to know that the pizza arrived. After the pizza was delivered, Comer left another message for the CM's wife, telling her to «enjoy the pizza.»
Comer's activities were «no mere prank,» the ruling states, and the possibility of an escalation into real-world violence forced Bungie to take «expensive measures» to protect the employee
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