Within hours of discovering that someone had spray painted "PROPAGANDA" on the billboard honoring Jimenez, 45th Ward Alderman Jim Gardiner made sure to get the defaced billboard taken down, city leaders said.
Spray-painted on the mural were the acronyms “ACAB” and “FTP” which are two vulgar anti-police slogans, as well as a symbol used by anarchists.
The memorial in honor of Officers Michael Schiavina and Alain Beauregard was sprayed in red with the acronyms ACAB and FTP.
Police received a complaint Monday afternoon that a man was acting aggressively toward the business owners and damaged the flag displays, Ogden Officer John Poulsen wrote in a probable cause statement.
Vandals knocked over a statue of a police officer and left it in pieces at a 9/11 memorial in Plymouth, MA. A nearby figure of a firefighter was untouched.
Two large rocks beside a freeway in California's Central Valley, which were painted in memory of slain Sacramento Officer Tara O'Sullivan, were defaced by vandals over the weekend.
The law enforcement memorial monument outside the Capitol in Madison, WI, was vandalized during the night Friday night, with writing spelling out "#Justice4AnthonySmith."
On October 18, two suspects trespassed onto the California Highway Patrol's new office in Bakersfield and defaced and vandalized the office and Fallen Officer Memorial with blue paint.
Initially, someone spray painted the words "Justice for Alton" on the ground, which has been cleared. However, there is still more work to be done.
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