Posted on 07/06/2021 12:06:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in California was vandalized with “horrific graffiti” in a despicable act that’s being investigated as a hate crime, officials say.
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said the likeness of the civil rights icon at Martin Luther King Jr. Park was defaced over the July Fourth holiday weekend.
“The LBPD are investigating this as a hate crime and we are working to catch whoever committed this awful act,” Garcia tweeted Monday. “Our MLK statue is a symbol of hope and justice for the community. This hate and desecration has no place in our city.”
A photo posted to Twitter showed the statue spray-painted with what appeared to be a swastika and SS bolts — two common neo-Nazi and white supremacy symbols, according to the Anti-Defamation League
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It looks like an ugly stereotypical depiction of a black man back in the day.
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?
Graffiti on a statue is news?
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
The leftists believe in the Pagan Gods—some folks call it the Woke Pantheon.
There are the black gods, the female gods, the hispanic gods, the gay gods, the transvestite gods—soon to be added, the child molester gods.
Hoax! Hoax hoax hoax!!! The hoaxiest of all hoaxes that ever hoaxed!
I bet with my retirement that suspect is black
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.
MLK was the one thing Kennedy and J.E. Hoover got right.
Agreed.
But the left... a hate crime! OHMIGAWD! Another legacy from the execrable Ted Kennedy.
It’s a horrific fake hate crime.
When Antifa tore down St. Junipero Serra’s statue in Golden Gate park it somehow wasn’t a hate crime.
this looks like Stepin Fetchit ??
does anyone know where Juicy Smollett was?
California cops probing ‘horrific’ graffiti on MLK statue as hate crime
Agree, how can graffiti be “horrific”?
Answer, it CAN’T.
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