Harvy Barsoom
Orthodox Christian man who while living in Texas was baselessly accused of being a stalker.
The infamous incident involving Harvy Malak Barsoom happened in the city of Plano in the middle of a summer day. We have only two CCTV video clips from which to infer what happened.
In the first clip, a well-known tranny is walking [her] dog along the street while Harvy Barsoom is a few steps behind her, moving in the same direction. The footage does not conclusively show that he is following her; any inference that he is doing so arises only in light of later events rather than from the clip itself.
In the second clip, filmed inside an apartment building, the trans woman enters and proceeds up the stairs toward her unit. Barsoom follows her in and looks up. His body language appears accusatory and confrontational rather than furtive, sexual, or predatory.
The trans woman reaches her apartment and then Barsoom hurriedly exits the building, later revealed to be because he believed she had produced a firearm. No further interaction is evidenced. All subsequent characterizations of the encounter depend on interpretation added after the fact rather than on conduct clearly depicted in the videos.
The tranny called police and accused Barsoom of stalking. After several days of investigation, internal police emails (later obtained through public records requests) showed officers concluding among themselves that no crime had occurred, though they noted that the trans woman was creating significant public attention on social media.
She had begun posting the video clips online and publicly referred to him as a stalker, deliberately emphasizing his Middle-Eastern origin. While refraining from making explicitly false factual claims, she framed the narrative in ways that led her followers to infer that he was Muslim, resulting in widespread Islamophobic commentary characterizing him as a dangerous “foreign predator.”
As a minor political commentator with an online platform and political alignment with the district attorney, she reportedly made direct contact with officials while continuing to amplify the story publicly.
Two months after police had reviewed the evidence and determined that no crime had occurred, the district attorney initiated a Level B misdemeanor trespassing prosecution by filing an information. The charge was widely regarded as nominal, undertaken to address public pressure rather than to reflect the evidentiary record.
A case “filed by information” means that criminal charges were initiated directly by a prosecutor, rather than arising from an on-the-spot arrest or a police determination of probable cause. In this process, the district attorney reviews the matter after the fact and files a formal charging document—called an information—to commence prosecution. The key implication is that the case reflects a discretionary prosecutorial decision, not a contemporaneous judgment by law enforcement that a crime was occurring. In practice, cases filed by information often arise well after the underlying incident and may be influenced by external pressures, new complaints, or political considerations rather than newly discovered evidence.
Under Texas law, even misdemeanors require that mugshots be taken and websites routinely publish these online, humiliating those who have been merely accused and not yet convicted.
The trans woman and her followers circulated Barsoom’s photograph extensively, using it to reinforce a public narrative portraying him as a stalker. In fact, Barsoom is an Orthodox Coptic Christian with a wedding to a real woman already scheduled months before the incident.
What began as a complaint about a trans woman’s shameless failure to clean up after a dog was twisted into a racialized and religiously charged accusation of stalking.
CASE UPDATES
BARSOOM, HARVY MALAK LEWISVILLE, TEXAS COLLIN COUNTY 09/30/2025 Bond Information - $10.00 202516082/$750 10/16/2025 Letter of Representation 12/04/2025 Case Filed By Information (OCA) 12/04/2025 Request for Discovery Defendant's Self-Executing Request for Discovery Pursuant to Tex. Code Crim. Proc Art 39.14 (the Michael Morton Act) 12/04/2025 Request Notice of Intent to Use Evid Prior Conv-Ext Offenses Request for Notice of Intent to Offer Extraneous Conduct Under Rule 404(b) and Evidence of Conviction Under Rule 609(f) and Evidence of an Extraneous Crime or Bad Act Under Article 37.07 12/08/2025 Notice to Appear Issued - $5.00 01/23/2026 CANCELED First Appearance (8:30 AM) (Judicial Officers Waddill, David) Passed 04/16/2026 CANCELED 2 BTC/ SUPER PASS 07/30/2026 Arraignment Hearing (9:00 AM)
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