Reading this guy’s history of crimes and mental health issues, I suppose we should be glad he was using a paintbrush or spray can rather than a gun.
200 holy shit that seems like a lot!
I wonder whether any of those swastikas were actually going the right direction. The left-facing ones in the picture were common in pre-WWII Buddhist iconography but didn’t appear on the Nazi flag.
Today’s Nazis are too stupid to even draw the symbol correctly.
Exactly - one guy? - lot of time - lot of cans of spray paint - the typical hate filled ass-hole would probably have gotten bored after 15 or 20 … and totally fatigued out at about 30 … and most people if they pushed on would have totally lost all feeling in their spray-paint-nozzle-pushing finger by about 60 … this is dedicated hate - or true mental illness
Oh man. I clicked through too. He’s a mess, basically. My first real job after college was doing data entry at an outpatient community mental health center, and among the people they dealt with were ones like this. There’s not a lot you can do with them—it’s a victory just to keep the lid on so they don’t end up back in jail.
I saw a video of two cemetery workers laboring to remove the paint from a tombstone. The video was over two minutes long, and by its end they hadn’t yet gotten the swastika off. Multiply by 200 8^(
Not just Buddhist.
The whirling logs has been a Native American symbol for millennia.
My mother’s family, including my grandmother, are buried here. Oddly, this is a protestant and not a Jewish cemetery. I would be surprised if any Jewish people were buried here.
How’d they catch him? Not reported by TPM, nor in link in the story.
Security camera at one of the homes he defaced.