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Santa Cruz police nearing arrest in second Black Lives Matter mural vandalism
Lookout Santa Cruz ^ | December 21, 2023 | MAX CHUN

Posted on 12/22/2023 10:24:54 AM PST by artichokegrower

Santa Cruz police say they are “pretty confident” they have identified the vandal who threw blue paint across the downtown Black Lives Matter mural in July, and hope to make an arrest within a few weeks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; california; mural; police; santacruz
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“Almost all cases nowadays, we look into stuff they’ve stored on people’s phones, computers, and their search histories,” he said. “That’s where we really learn a lot about a person and their motive.”


Big Brother is watching you. Anyhow I'm glad that there is no major crimes being committed so the local police can focus on this

1 posted on 12/22/2023 10:24:54 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

I’m done searching for how to build a plutonium bomb. Just too risky.🤣


2 posted on 12/22/2023 10:28:24 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: artichokegrower

Because Graffitti Matters


3 posted on 12/22/2023 10:28:24 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Vandalized? Meh. Just graffiti artists doing their thing.


4 posted on 12/22/2023 10:28:45 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: artichokegrower

Bucket of paint probably fell off a truck.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 10:28:59 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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So they are “pretty confident” they know who it is but it’s gonna take weeks to make an arrest?.......doesn’t sound too confident to me Barney


6 posted on 12/22/2023 10:30:09 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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“A few weeks” is not “pretty close”. It may have been in the search for the green river killer or Ted Bundy, but not paint spilled on the road.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 10:30:12 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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How about a few thousand arrests for the Antifa vandals who tore down statutes they didn’t like and for BLM goons who burned down cities?


8 posted on 12/22/2023 10:31:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing a Gorilla costume turns a man into an ape.)
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They probably don’t have a clue, but they are just trying to appese the ferals to keep them from burning the place down.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 10:33:29 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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I think it would have been hilarious if someone took a paint roller and a bucket of white paint and covered “black” with “white”. 🤣


10 posted on 12/22/2023 10:35:07 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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JULY to almost JANUARY.

Certainly fast work there, Sparky


11 posted on 12/22/2023 10:36:19 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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I guess......every train car in the country has eye pollution in the form of graffiti on ‘em and nobody gives 2 shits.


12 posted on 12/22/2023 10:36:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: artichokegrower

Defund them.


13 posted on 12/22/2023 10:38:41 AM PST by sasquatch
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It must be tough to figure out which of the thousands of right wing extremists in Santa Cruz did this...

Lol.


14 posted on 12/22/2023 10:39:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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“MURAL”

MURAL???!!!?

It is not a mural. It is yellow street paint, in block letters in the street.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 10:53:51 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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Just one can of paint?

Really needs to have an asphalt company run one of their prime and tack trucks over the racist graffiti:

https://youtu.be/R5t4lV340yA?si=B5uKWF9PysrfEsTW


16 posted on 12/22/2023 10:54:53 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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Tearing down statues is not considered vandalism, but this is. Insanity rules.


17 posted on 12/22/2023 10:58:33 AM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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Santa Cruz police nearing arrest in second Black Lives Matter mural vandalism

Hopefully, I'll get on the Jury.

18 posted on 12/22/2023 11:10:36 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Two dudes did burn outs on the BLM graffiti which was painted on a public street. Got convicted of a felony

Nearly 100 community members and activists packed a Santa Cruz courtroom Friday for the sentencing hearing of two men who had pleaded no contest in the 2021 vandalism of Black Lives Matter street mural outside city hall.

Brandon Bochat and Hagan Warner were both sentenced to two years of probation, 144 hours of community service and ordered to pay a combined $19,623 in restitution, far below the $114,000 originally sought by the prosecution.

The money will be split between the City of Santa Cruz and the SC Equity Collab.

Judge Syda Cogliati also gave both men a 90-day suspended sentence, which will allow them to avoid jail time if they abide by the other conditions imposed by the court. The men will also have to attend a class or program on racial or ethnic sensitivity as part of their probation.


19 posted on 12/22/2023 11:14:29 AM PST by artichokegrower
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..doesn’t sound too confident to me Barney

They probably know who did it, the problem is that he's the wrong color.

20 posted on 12/22/2023 11:27:55 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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