[ReignOfError]

Intent and Motive have been established in the dozens of cases where these groups have vandalized other war memorials across the country.

Intent and motive in those cases. Not in this one, when so few facts are known. In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height in the middle of the night while no one was watching? Seems like a weird way to make a statement.

[tgslTakoma]

In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height...

[usmcobra]

In how many of those cases were memorials vandalized at ankle height in the middle of the night while no one was watching? Seems like a weird way to make a statement.

Not really, in most of the cases the perps did their most damage down low and out of sight.

Laying low would be the way to go especially as well lit as the wall is at night.

Those that actually were there did not report the strong oder of Gasoline or castor oil(two stroke oil) both of which are used in weed eaters, so I reject your theory as unsubstantiated, also Gasoline would have evaporated but still smelled. My wife can smell gas on me from hours before hand.