vandalism

Racist graffiti was discovered in Dracut, Massachusetts, Saturday, and local police are investigating its origin. The graffiti was discovered spray painted near the intersection of County and Indian roads around 4 p.m. Saturday near the town line with Tyngsboro, Dracut Police Chief Peter Bartlett said. Bartlett said it is believed the act of vandalism occurred some time between Friday night…

Three women have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the one-time Northern California home of a former police officer who testified on behalf of the former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin by splashing pig blood on it and leaving a pig’s head near the front porch.

Police are attempting to identify a man wanted in connection to numerous incidents of vandalism in Everett, Massachusetts, including one at a local church last week. Everett police released two photos Monday and say the man in the pictures is suspected of vandalizing multiple times, including an incident at Zion Baptist Ministries in the early morning hours on April 29….

Authorities have been investigating the vandalism at Zion Baptist Ministries in Everett — which has a largely Black congregation — as a possible hate crime.

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week. According to the university, passengers in a vehicle allegedly yelled anti-Asian slurs while driving by several students who were walking on campus. One of the students who says he was threatened and verbally insulted while walking down the street last week says he no…

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week.

Police in Everett, Massachusetts, are investigating vandalism at a church with a largely Black congregation as a possible hate crime, authorities said. A large wooden cross that stood outside the Zion Bapist Church was uprooted and left in an adjacent yard, Bishop Robert G. Brown, senior pastor of the church, told The Boston Globe. The church’s office manager noticed...

Police are investigating racist, homophobic and sexually explicit graffiti found in a home in North Reading on Monday.

Santa Rosa police say a bizarre crime in the area is related to the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Security footage captured a couple in Seoul, South Korea, accidentally vandalizing a painting worth $500,000 after thinking the display was participatory art.

Police are investigating after two Boston churches reported cases of vandalism.

Two Boston churches were vandalized Thursday night or early Friday morning. A statue of the Virgin Mary was toppled over at St. Monica’s Parish in South Boston. “If somebody’s hurting, this isn’t the way to go about their pain,” said Reverend Peter DeFazio, the church’s pastor. Multiple door locks were filled with a glue-like sticky substance that DeFazio says...

Dozens of vehicles have been targeted by vandalism early Monday morning in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Authorities are searching for suspects after a nativity scene at Quincy City Hall was vandalized Tuesday night. Quincy Police released limited information about the incident, but shared a photo on Instagram of two people they suspect are responsible for the vandalism. Anyone who may have seen the two people pictured in the Quincy Square area Tuesday night is asked to…

Black Lives Matter D.C. condemned vandalism to several downtown churches that took place during Saturday night’s protests, claiming D.C. police officers “physically protected white supremacists, as they threatened lives, damaged historic churches and destroyed and burned property.” Black Lives Matter organizers and one of the churches claim the damage was done by members of the Proud Boys and by...

Authorities in Idaho are investigating after what’s believed to be the only memorial in the U.S. dedicated to Holocaust victim Anne Frank was desecrated with Nazi propaganda earlier this week, NBC News reports.

A mural in Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring a late congressman and civil rights icon, was vandalized this week. The mural of Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who died in July, on the side of Urban Hearth, was defaced with paint late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, according to police. Running a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic has been wearing owner Erin…

A mural of John Lewis, painted outside a Cambridge restaurant after the late congressman and civil rights icon died, was defaced with paint.

Angry crowds took to the streets in West Philadelphia overnight after police shot and killed a man armed with a knife Monday, with some in the crowds throwing rocks and bricks at police and some looting or vandalizing businesses.

Authorities were investigating Friday after four vehicles were vandalized with spray paint in the South End. Boston police said they received a call at 7:12 a.m. about the vandalized cars in the area of Wellington Street and Columbus Avenue. At the scene, they said they found the cars spray painted with the letters “BLM.” Footage of the scene also showed…