Police appeal over ‘senseless’ damage to seven statues during trans rights rally in London

https://news.sky.com/story/police-appeal-over-senseless-damage-to-seven-statues-during-trans-rights-rally-in-london-13352521

by topotaul

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  3. The suffragettes being a repeated target of trans activists is not a good look, and no amount of deleted posts or Reddit down votes will change that.

  7. The council is responsible for removing graffiti from public spaces, there’s a law against it, you can be charged with criminal damage, even if it’s chalk. If they catch who did it, they’ll probably get a fine to cover the cost of sending a council worker out to clean it off, somewhere around the £100 mark.

    People have been caught out before, they think because it’s chalk it’s ok. The courts can be lenient and as far as I can tell they usually are but it’s still possible to get a criminal record for it that would show up on a DBS certificate.

  8. So many comments about it being in chalk (so who cares right) when the very first picture in the article is very clearly in spray paint

    Just own it

  9. For fucks sake. This does not help us. There were enough signs. Graffiti wasn’t necessary.

  10. It’s funny, these papers were calling writing an agreeing message supporting human rights on a human rights campaigners statue violent,

    Meanwhile, [the times is literally running a double page spread supporting a guy who is straight up, right now going around threatening violence against any trans people he encounters outside](https://bsky.app/profile/hleehurley.com/post/3lnauvzfeoq23)

    but god forbid someone do some inoffensive writing in a temporary slightly impolite way on a statue after being essentially labelled a second class citizen by the government for no reason.

    edit: clarified it was a different paper

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