[ChicagoConservative27]

I smell a false flag by Antifa of BLM.

[Boogieman]

Well, Long Beach is one of the few areas where it might actually have been done by real white supremacists. There are some real ones around there.

[Puppage]

“Horrific”? PAHleeeease.

[TexasM1A]

Yep, done by a couple of “woke” black utes.
Just keeping it real yo.

Graffiti on a statue, who cares, after 2020 none of them mean anything anymore.

Imagine if someone pulled it down, they probably would have called in airstrikes on the city.

[lee martell]

I can smell the odor of “Fake” even over the internet.
It’s trite and just too obvious.
Buzz words.

A true racist attacker would have tried to destroy, dismantle or bring the statue down in the style of Sadam Hussein.
That would have been too much work for this group of race baiters.

[Uncle Miltie]

ANTIFA could’ve just pulled it down with no consequences.

[bray]

Or FBI.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They defaced the statue of the guy who said to “judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.” That’s a sentiment no one on the left believes — all the leftists care about is the color of your skin! One would think they would be elated that they defaced his statue.

If they are appalled at “horrific” grafitti on MLK, then what about this statue of Father Junipero Serra?

[I want the USA back]

Defacing Columbus status was promoted by the democrats, and no one was arrested for destroying them or tearing them down.

It is impossible to base charges on who the statue is a statue of! (in a sane world.) But it’s not a sane world. Nothing is what it is any more. Everything is a symbol of something else.

[ridesthemiles]

Same place where city council demanded $2 per hour “Hero pay” for grocery store workers —due to Covid......

And 2 chains promptly CLOSED 4 stores. PERMANENTLY.

[hanamizu]

Wait a minute. I can see that vandalizing a publicly or privately owned statue is a crime. But how can it be a hate crime? Is hating or showing hate toward an inanimate object now a punishable offense in itself?

If so, is the recent vandalism of the stature of Junipero Serra, who was HISPANIC!, also an horrific hate crime?

[AppyPappy]

Graffiti on a statue is news?

[A_Former_Democrat]

OH THE HORROR

Meanwhile crime violent crime property crimes, shootings aids etc all goes unabated or unprosecuted

And yet we worry about how “horrific” this graffiti is

[Mathews]

Hoax! Hoax hoax hoax!!! The hoaxiest of all hoaxes that ever hoaxed!

[Lee25]

I bet with my retirement that suspect is black

[Rummyfan]

A hate crime? Against a statue?! WTF?

Dollars to doughnuts the perp is black. Shows a little imagination in using the swastike and the SS lightning bolts.

[Beagle8U]

MLK was the one thing Kennedy and J.E. Hoover got right.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I smell a false flag by Antifa of BLM."

I wouldn't be surprised. That statue has probably been there for decades but this happens just now, coinciding with the "white supremacist" narrative we are being fed.

[\/\/ayne]

It’s a horrific fake hate crime.

[buwaya]

When Antifa tore down St. Junipero Serra’s statue in Golden Gate park it somehow wasn’t a hate crime.

[Robert DeLong]

Long Beach over 40% Hispanic, less than 30% white, 13% black, 13% Asian. 3.1% mixed, and 1.4% other.

Race and Ethnicity in Long Beach, California (City)