Chittenden County Superior Court. Social media images courtesy of Steve Polli
By Rachel Feldman, Raychfeldman.com
A Vermont man was cited to appear in court for an alleged hate-motivated crime after Hinesburg Police say he sent threatening Facebook messages to a Jewish man.
Cameron “Cam” Locarno, 20, of Barre, faces two charges for sending a series of threatening antizionist Facebook messages to Steven Polli, of Hinesburg, which Polli reported to law enforcement on June 9.
Police cited Locarno to appear in Chittenden Superior Court on July 23 on charges of disturbing peace by use of telephone or other electronic communications, and a hate-motivated crime.
Read the redacted police report and full description of citations.
Polli, who owns Polli Construction in South Burlington, Vt., says he never interacted with Locarno before receiving the messages, neither personally nor through his business.
“He doesn’t know me at all,” Polli said.
He said he suspects Locarno’s messages were brought on by a comment Polli made on social media about “being a Jew and proudly flying the [Israeli] flags in my home and business.”
Upon receipt of the first three Facebook messages, Polli looked up Locarno. Polli’s girlfriend reached out to Locarno’s family via social media to tell them about the exchange.
“They seem like good people,” Polli said of the family. “I don’t put this on them.”
Polli says Locarno then sent him a fourth message after Polli’s girlfriend reached out to the family. That’s when Polli went to law enforcement.
“I have to keep my family and business safe,” he said, “and that means I have a right to be a Jew without being threatened.” Polli moved to the United States from Scotland in 1986. “Growing up in Scotland was an extremely antisemitic experience for me, with several school fights because I was Jewish. I would never have expected that what I believe to be the best country in the world – the United States of America – would ever permit such public hatred based on utter lies.”
Polli continued that the media and elected officials are largely responsible for spreading the antizionist libels he received in the messages.
The Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s office will decide whether to pursue the police-recommended hate-motivated crime enhancement when Locarno appears in court.
Vermont first defined “hate-motivated crime” in statute in 1990 as an enhancement to an underlying charge. In 2025, the statute was expanded to apply enforcement more broadly to state that an individual’s protected status need neither be the predominant nor sole motive in pursuing the hate-motivated crime enhancement.
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I never could have imagined that in the year 2026, in the planet’s second largest home to Jews, New York City and in other American cities, that Jewish college students would have to be afraid of going to classes or visiting the library for fear of being verbally or physically assaulted because of their faith. To hear another case of someone in Vermont now being harassed simply for his religious heritage is equally appalling. Anti-Semitism used to be founded on little more than baseless hearsay, scapegoating and general vindictiveness, uttered by people who just hated everyone other than “people like themselves”. Now the radical left has widely promoted it’s own justification for hating Jewish persons, assuming all Jews are Zionists and oppress their recent cause celeb, Palestinians. These are the leftist folks who use slogans like “celebrate diversity” and “honor our differences” but like to affix the words “colonizer” and “oppressor” to any group of people who they think dont belong in a particular place. All the ancient maps of the area around present-day Israel that I have studied refer to it as Judea. Just because the Ottomans invaded and COLONIZED the region around the year 1500, they are now inexplicably considered by the ignorant left as “indigenous”. Indigenous is a relative term. As a Christian living in the free world, I consider myself to be half Jewish and stand proudly with the Jewish people and the people of Israel of all faiths, as they maintain the only real democracy in the region. Since we in the US have at some level returned to being a merit-based society, I embrace the Jewish people over Palestinians based on their collective contributions to improving the human condition. The radical left’s perpetual embrace of the culture of victimhood and the oppressor/oppressed matrix is pathological and dystopian.
Stay strong, Polli Family. When was the last time anyone in Vermont heard of someone calling a Palestinian contractor to come over and fix a rotten deck or replace some windows. Understandably, it’s hard to do any repair work when you have your raised, clenched fist of anger in the air constantly.
Actually, the region was conquered by Muslim Arabs during the ‘600’s. Later, entrepreneurship, mostly by Jews, brought an influx of Arab Muslims. This stretched from the latter 1800’s up until the founding of Israel, at which point the Muslims attacked the Jews. Jews, Christians, Druse, and others supported Israel. They preferred democracy to extra taxes and to robbery and violent assaults.
Rich, by definition, Jews ARE Zionists. Tzion is ISRAEL. The land of Israel.
The Israel that G-D promised to the Jewish people for all time in his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Tzion is spoken of multiple times in the Torah. Its where Jerusalem, the site of both the first and second Holy Temples are located. Tzion is not political, its a geographic place and an identity for the Jewish people who were taught by G-D that the holiest place in the world is the site of the Holy Temples, the location there of the Holy of Holies, in Jerusalem, the Land of Israel. Tzion !
Apparently we’ve invoked the thought police to violate the 1st via a popular social media double standard. Consider yourself subjugated when your door can be beaten down for what you ‘think’ vs what you ‘do’ here ~S~
We stand with you Mr Polli against anti-semitism! Not in Vermont!