Posted on 08/19/2022 7:04:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
Washington D.C., Aug 18, 2022 / 17:35 pm Police have arrested and charged the man believed to have vandalized St. Anthony School in Washington, D.C., last week.
The property destruction led to national outcry and support for a Catholic school celebrating its 100th year this fall.
St. Anthony’s principal of 12 years, Michael Thomasian, believes the incident was a hate crime targeted at the school’s Catholic witness. The school serves grades Pre-K-8 in the Brookland neighborhood.
In a phone interview with CNA, Thomasian pointed out that the only objects destroyed in the attack were Catholic symbols of the faith.
“Vandalism is always a violation,” Thomasian said, “but the devastation is elevated when sacred statues, symbols of our faith and Christian identity, are desecrated.”
“I don’t know what else to say, it was an act full of hate,” he added.
The incident is being investigated as a potential hate crime, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department said, in which 32-year-old Demitrius Hansford of Northeast Washington vandalized the school’s St. Anthony of Padua statue, stole $1,400 in cash, and trampled areas on the property in two incidents, on Aug. 10 and Aug. 15.
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Demitrius Hansford.
So it’s a Greek guy?
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