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California police seeking white man and woman who defaced Black Lives Matter mural
MSNBC ^ | 5 July 2020 | Doha Madani

Posted on 07/05/2020 4:38:57 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Police are looking to identify a white man and white woman who vandalized a city-approved Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, California, on the Fourth of July.

The woman was caught on video by onlookers as she painted over the words “Black Lives Matter” on the street in front of the Contra Costa County courthouse while the man appeared to film her on his phone. Authorities are asking the public to identify the couple so they may be “held accountable for their actions,” Martinez Police Chief Manjit Sappal said in a Sunday press release. “The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner,” the release said. “The City of Martinez values tolerance and the damage to the mural was divisive and hurtful.”

Sappal's release verified the video, which was shared on YouTube and an Instagram account called "Karens Going Wild." The Instagram post has more than 375,000 views, while the YouTube video has been seen less than 50,000 times.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; couple; deface; floyd; localnews; mural; saucegander; saucegoos; turnaboutisfairplay; whatgoesaround; willcomearound
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

This must be a Joke, destroying and defacing is not against the Law now


21 posted on 07/05/2020 4:56:04 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Tired of Taxes
Thanks for the link on 14.
That's not a 'mural'. Just yellow BLM block letters written on the street.
Maybe the good citizens didn't like to see 'BLM' run over by cars... Or maybe they just didn't like seeing their streets defaced.
22 posted on 07/05/2020 4:56:40 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

We heard from people up here,that the couple supposedly in trouble, painted over the not so legal BLM graffiti and then painted: “ALL Lives Matter!” Now they are being labeled as racists.

People are getting fired for posting “All Lives Matter!”

If your reverend, parson, priest, deacon or whatever is pushing the BLM crud, tell them that as a long time Christian, All Lives Matter! If they still push the BLM stuff, tell them as a Christian, All Lives Matter.


23 posted on 07/05/2020 4:57:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( "Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for over a month!")
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Here ya go!

Tell him what you think. Ask him, for example, if he knows how much money and effort the city of Baltimore put into the Christopher Columbus statue in Little Italy? Then remind him stuff like this is going on all over the country. Nothing is being done. We’re being ‘taught’ that this behavior is ok. I told him that if I was on a local jury, these people could not be found guilty by me.

Be nice, but firm:

Manjit Sappal
msappal@cityofmartinez.org
(925) 372-3445


24 posted on 07/05/2020 4:58:12 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: butlerweave

selective prosecution


25 posted on 07/05/2020 4:58:21 PM PDT by rolling_stone (tshf)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Proper defacement requires a full bladder


26 posted on 07/05/2020 4:58:49 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

When the police protect and enable the lawlessness and arrest law abiding citizens then the police become the enemy. I will have no sympathy for police if they take sides with antifa. They will be the enemy too.


27 posted on 07/05/2020 4:59:49 PM PDT by sasafras (WHEN YOU USE PAYPAL YOU GIVE MONEY TO GEORGE SOROS - TAKE A STAND AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNT)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The irony just drips off the page.


28 posted on 07/05/2020 5:00:00 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: White Lives Matter

Ya but... Your name is beyond the pale... (grin)


29 posted on 07/05/2020 5:01:22 PM PDT by SierraWasp (MASA (Make America Straight Again!!!))
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Police are looking to identify a white man and white woman who vandalized a city-approved Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, California, on the Fourth of July.

Are they going after vandals who topple statues?
30 posted on 07/05/2020 5:01:49 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rolling_stone

Selective prosecution is SOP for a despotic regime

Now you know where you live.


31 posted on 07/05/2020 5:03:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I have a 5 gallon pail of black asphalt sealer and a rust hole in the floor of my van. Want to bet whether it leaks on the BLM street painting?


32 posted on 07/05/2020 5:03:41 PM PDT by anton
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You can burn the American flag... burn an LGBTQ+ rainbow flag and they’ll find you!


33 posted on 07/05/2020 5:04:50 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Voltaire once wrote: “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

Who in American politics are people not allowed to criticize?


34 posted on 07/05/2020 5:05:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( "Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for over a month!")
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To: BipolarBob

Statues pulled down and thrown into the river is okay but deface BLM graffiti . . oh no no no.

We have rounded the corner re insanity rules in our politics!


35 posted on 07/05/2020 5:07:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( "Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for over a month!")
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

YT lists 84k+ views, not 375k.
Still using that new math, I guess.


36 posted on 07/05/2020 5:08:17 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

My bad, I mixed-up YT and Instagram numbers.


37 posted on 07/05/2020 5:09:26 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I’ll chip in on any legal bills. How do you deface something that is going to be driven over thousands of times?


38 posted on 07/05/2020 5:10:53 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
 
 
Heck of an indicator of where we are at in this nation when there is open and officially government sanctioned support for a domestic Marxist insurrection.
 
 

39 posted on 07/05/2020 5:11:36 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I did it - and if they put that crap up again, I’ll paint over it again. There’s nothing you can do to stop me.

I’ll travel anywhere to do the same thing over and over.


40 posted on 07/05/2020 5:11:51 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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