From Berkeleyside: Police are investigating vandalism and graffiti at six homes of UC Berkeley staff members, some of whom are associated with the planned housing development at People’s Park, according to the university. The incidents happened between Thursday evening and early Friday morning, and included a brick thrown through a window, broken vehicle windows, slashed tires and extensive graffiti at homes in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco, according to university. No one was physically injured, according to UC police who are leading the investigation.
Residents shared some images of the graffiti with Berkeleyside, which showed, among other things, “A murderer lives here” scrawled on a garage in red spray paint, as well as “[Name], you murderer” outside another home with garbage dumped inside a driveway. Berkeleyside is not sharing names or images to protect the identity of the residents. UC police believe the vandalism is associated with the plan to build student housing at People’s Park. The university said this was determined based on the content of “highly threatening, hateful graffiti,” the identity of the Cal staff members whose homes were involved, the timing of the vandalism and other details obtained in the ongoing investigation...
Full story at https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/03/09/uc-berkeley-development-peoples-park-vandalism-graffiti
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