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.
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It was a mural if it were sanctioned by the community; either painted after civic permission of some kind were granted, or on private property with permission. Anything else is graffiti and is a crime. You cannot “deface” graffiti, you can only add to it, or clean it up.
The ‘mural’ was in the middle of a street where cars will soon run all over it. Defacing?
Criticize Black Lives Matter and find out....haven’t you been paying attention....
Vandalizing vandalism.
Okay.
/crazy world
True...and if you so much as breathe out of order where I work your career is over. That’s the stranglehold these degenerates have on the culture.
the so called ‘community’ spent a CONSIDERABLE amount of time etc
gee then the ‘community’ shouldn’t have bothered to go to so much trouble eh ???
Nobody asked them to do so...
did they ever CONSIDER somebody just might be OFFENDED ???
Right now everything that offends is being destroyed...
They don’t want their graffiti covered over. Weird.
Brother, make no mistake the writing is on the wall.
They will be coming for US!
Oh, I have been paying attention.
This is a lot of rerun from the 1960/70’S!
It was a racist mural.
Been upside down since both parties swore in an ineligible Kenyan/Indonesian/British subject in direct violation of the Constitution.
“California police”
They have police in Utopian California?
We are going to need a lot of ropes and lampposts in the future.
These idiots and cowards are too dangerous and stupid to either fix, or trust.
I wonder what they would do if it was a black man and woman defacing this racist piece of crap.
Exactly.
How is defacing a poster worse than defacing and destroying a statue? From a speech perspective they are the same. From a property perspective the latter is much, much worse.
Sounds like she was protesting and exercising free speech to me.
“a city-approved Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, California,”
So see the city approved this but I wonder if they asked all citizens of all colors how they felt before they spent their tax money on it.
View point discrimination. Plenty of case law.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1028/viewpoint-discrimination
Exactly!
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