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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This must be a Joke, destroying and defacing is not against the Law now
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.
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
selective prosecution
Proper defacement requires a full bladder
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.
The irony just drips off the page.
Ya but... Your name is beyond the pale... (grin)
Selective prosecution is SOP for a despotic regime
Now you know where you live.
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?
You can burn the American flag... burn an LGBTQ+ rainbow flag and they’ll find you!
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?
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!
YT lists 84k+ views, not 375k.
Still using that new math, I guess.
My bad, I mixed-up YT and Instagram numbers.
I’ll chip in on any legal bills. How do you deface something that is going to be driven over thousands of times?
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.
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