Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2016 19:48:54 GMT -5
So. This happened.
‘Get Over It!’: 79-Year-Old Trump Supporter Arrested for Allegedly Vandalizing Children’s Mural
That's what's wrong with America today. Damn kids and their love murals.
‘Get Over It!’: 79-Year-Old Trump Supporter Arrested for Allegedly Vandalizing Children’s Mural
The mystery of the anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Donald Trump vandals who continued to deface a beautiful children’s mural took a while to solve.
Power Stretch Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, had suffered a fire in September, and its windows and door was boarded up. Two days after the Nov. 8 presidential election, someone wrote on the boards: “Lock her up,” a popular refrain against Clinton amongst Trump supporters during his campaign. A studio employee painted over it, but the vandals returned, writing ”America Has Spoken” with Trump’s face drawn next to it.
Gina Shaw, a friend of studio owner Hakika DuBose, organized a group of children to paint over the graffiti on Nov. 13 with a brightly-colored mural that said, “Make America Love Again.” Yet by the next morning, someone had defaced the colorful mural with a message that said, “Make America Great Again,” a reference to Trump’s campaign slogan.
Residents would paint over the graffiti and the vandals would strike again, and again. The police had sent patrols but no culprits were nabbed. So DuBose and Shaw’s husband, Evan Bergstrom, staked out the location Thursday night into Friday morning in Bergstrom’s blue Honda CR-V.
At 4:07 a.m., says DuBose, two people jogging in bright yellow reflective vests stopped at the mural and pulled out markers.
“I look closer and I say, ‘That’s an old man and an old woman,’ ” says DuBose.
The couple drew a face of Trump, “Leave Alone I Was Here First” and “Get Over It.” Bergstrom took photos while DuBose called the Montclair police.
The pair, meanwhile, began jogging from the scene. DuBose and Bergstrom followed, and directed police to a building where cops found the couple.
“They kept saying, ‘She drew over our stuff first ‘ and the cops said, ‘This is not your property, she’s the owner,'” DuBose says. “The woman looked into my eyes and said, ‘We’re still going to make America great again.’ ”
Power Stretch Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, had suffered a fire in September, and its windows and door was boarded up. Two days after the Nov. 8 presidential election, someone wrote on the boards: “Lock her up,” a popular refrain against Clinton amongst Trump supporters during his campaign. A studio employee painted over it, but the vandals returned, writing ”America Has Spoken” with Trump’s face drawn next to it.
Gina Shaw, a friend of studio owner Hakika DuBose, organized a group of children to paint over the graffiti on Nov. 13 with a brightly-colored mural that said, “Make America Love Again.” Yet by the next morning, someone had defaced the colorful mural with a message that said, “Make America Great Again,” a reference to Trump’s campaign slogan.
Residents would paint over the graffiti and the vandals would strike again, and again. The police had sent patrols but no culprits were nabbed. So DuBose and Shaw’s husband, Evan Bergstrom, staked out the location Thursday night into Friday morning in Bergstrom’s blue Honda CR-V.
At 4:07 a.m., says DuBose, two people jogging in bright yellow reflective vests stopped at the mural and pulled out markers.
“I look closer and I say, ‘That’s an old man and an old woman,’ ” says DuBose.
The couple drew a face of Trump, “Leave Alone I Was Here First” and “Get Over It.” Bergstrom took photos while DuBose called the Montclair police.
The pair, meanwhile, began jogging from the scene. DuBose and Bergstrom followed, and directed police to a building where cops found the couple.
“They kept saying, ‘She drew over our stuff first ‘ and the cops said, ‘This is not your property, she’s the owner,'” DuBose says. “The woman looked into my eyes and said, ‘We’re still going to make America great again.’ ”
