Disgusting package sent to home of West Coast man who hurled huge rock at beloved Hawaiian seal

A Washington man threw a large rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal, which led to local anger and a pending criminal case. His attorney said the man was assaulted, doxxed, and sent hate mail after the incident, including a package that appeared to contain feces. The attorney claimed the man intended to protect sea turtles by getting the seal away, after misidentifying it as an aggressive sea lion. The attorney also said attacks on monk seals and turtles are mostly carried out by locals. A viral video showed a shirtless man knocking him down from behind and beating him. The attacker was praised as a hero, and a state senator displayed a letter recognizing the anonymous seal advocate.

"Washington man Igor Lytvynchuk, 38, threw a rock at an endangered monk seal earlier this month, drawing immediate fury from locals and a pending criminal case. His attorney, Myles Breiner, told the Seattle Times Lytvynchuk has been brutally assaulted, doxxed, and has received hate mail since the incident. He said his client recently received a package of what appeared to be feces."

"Breiner claimed his client was trying to protect sea turtles from the seal, which he misidentified as an aggressive sea lion. "So his response was not to hurt this monk seal, but to get it away from the turtles," Breiner said. His attorney claims he's being mistreated because he's white. "The vast majority of attacks on monk seal and turtle are by locals," he said."

"The viral clip of the act of citizen justice shows a shirtless man approaching the Seattle man from behind and knocking him down in a flurry of blows. The footage quickly scored thousands of likes and comments praising the local for helping dish out karma. The beat-down also grabbed the attention of state Sen. Brenton Awa (R-23rd Dist.), who showed off a letter of recognition for the anonymous seal advocate during a state meeting."

""Some of us have seen environmental activists [sic], I like to call them, who took matters into his own hands to educate what might happen when you mess with our lands or the animals," Awa said. "Our attorney over here wants to make it clear we don't condone violence, but we did make a letter of recognition for Mr. Ambassador of Aloha. "And I do just want to say that from our caucus, we see this all the time with people with a different type of mentality coming in and destroying our stuff, essentially, in this case, animals."

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