Black Lives Matter Mural In Sacramento Defaced; Hate Crime Possible

SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) — Detectives are investigating the vandalism of a Midtown Sacramento Black Lives Matter mural arsenic a imaginable bias oregon hatred crime.

Sacramento constabulary accidental officers were called to the Capital Stage Co. gathering connected Tuesday aft the mural was vandalized with paint.

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“At this clip a motive for the vandalism has not been identified but the incidental is being investigated arsenic a imaginable bias oregon hatred crime,” Sacramento constabulary said successful a connection astir the investigation.

The gathering is location to a nonrecreational nonprofit theatre company, which said successful a Facebook station Thursday that it was “proud to enactment the #blacklivesmatter question and connection successful our community.”

The radical said it is moving with the creator to reconstruct the mural.

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The mural was splashed with achromatic and yellowish paint, colors that person been utilized by the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist organization.

Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela, who represents the area, said successful a Facebook station that the prime of colors and people suggests that it whitethorn person been a “bias related event.”

Police accidental detectives person canvassed the country for immoderate imaginable witnesses and surveillance footage, but nary accusation connected immoderate imaginable fishy has been released astatine this constituent successful the investigation.

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