A group touring the U.S. that opposes people assigned male at birth playing women’s and girls’ sports said its bus was vandalized in Chapel Hill last week. On Friday morning, members of the Our Bodies, Our Sports Take Back Title IX tour group saw their bus covered with messages written in black marker ink, including […]
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars in trees vandalized at family tree farm
ELIZABETH, Colo. (KDVR) — It was just another Wednesday when Grant Herring, co-owner of Pineco, a tree farm in Elizabeth, went to check up on his trees. “We came out here to check the irrigation, make sure things were running just with the heat and stuff,” Herring said. As he walked through the rows of […]
Nearly three dozen Tesla Cybertrucks vandalized in Fort Lauderdale lot, police say
Someone vandalized nearly three dozen of Elon Musks’s new Tesla Cybertrucks that were parked in a lot in Fort Lauderdale some time between Thursday night and Friday morning, when they were found with spray-painted writing on them, police said. Someone found 34 vandalized trucks in the lot, located in the 1900 block of Northeast 9th […]
Vandalized Martin Luther King Jr. statue returning to Springfield next month
The statue of a key civil rights figure which was vandalized in 2022 is coming back to Springfield for display this summer after a successful restoration. The Illinois Secretary of State’s office announced on they expect to return the Martin Luther King Jr. statue to Springfield’s Freedom Center at the corner of the Second Street […]
Rainbow flags vandalized at Stonewall National Monument in New York City
Rainbow flags lining the Stonewall National Monument in New York City to celebrate Pride month were taken down and destroyed this week, police said, marking the second year in a row that the flags have been vandalized during the annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community throughout June. Authorities received a report early Friday about the […]
Pride flags were again vandalized at the Stonewall National Monument
Over 150 rainbow flags lining New York City’s Stonewall National Monument for LGBTQ Pride Month were vandalized this week — for the second year in a row — police said Friday. Someone broke 160 flags both inside and outside the monument, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, between Thursday evening and Friday morning, a spokesperson for […]
New King Charles portrait vandalized by activists at London gallery
Animal rights activists vandalized a new portrait of King Charles III Tuesday as it was displayed at a London gallery. Two men, whom British media reported were from the group Animal Rising, were filmed pasting an image of the face of the character Wallace from the cartoon Wallace and Gromit over the king’s face, along with […]
Barclays bank branches vandalized by pro-Palestinian and climate activists
Around 20 branches of Barclays have been vandalized by pro-Palestinian and climate activists who said they were protesting against the UK bank’s business dealings in Israel and its funding of polluting industries. Windows were smashed and red paint was sprayed across buildings, including in London, to “demand the bank divests from Israel’s weapons trade and […]
This fountain was a fixture in KC since the ‘50s — until it was vandalized. What’s next?
A historical landmark in the ‘City of Fountains,’ known as the William Volker Memorial Fountain, sits near the Kansas City Country Club Plaza, featuring five sculpted figures. But, after vandals struck, only three of those figures remain intact. Now, the city faces a potentially hefty price tag to repair the fountain. An unidentified suspect removed […]
22 cars vandalized with spray paint, tires slashed in Big Bear’s Sugarloaf community
Deputies are seeking a vandal or vandals who damaged nearly two dozen cars with spray paint and slashed their tires in Big Bear’s Sugarloaf community this week, authorities said. The vandalism was first discovered Monday morning in the 400 block of Spruce Lane, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials. The crimes were believed […]
New Orleans City Council staff member wakes to find home vandalized
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans City Council has released a statement regarding threats made to a member of the staff. The statement reads that on May 16, alleged vandals covered the home of a Jewish city council staff member in red paint, possibly representing blood, in retaliation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Regardless of […]
Synagogue’s ‘We Stand With Israel’ sign vandalized overnight in Rockville
ROCKVILLE, Md. – A sign in front of Temple Beth Ami in Rockville that said “We Stand With Israel” was defaced with red spray paint overnight this past weekend. Photos show the sign with the word ‘Israel’ crossed out in red spray paint, and the beginning of the word ‘Palestine’ written over top. Police responded […]