VANDALS STRIKE CHURCH BUILDING.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer LA CRESCENTA - What began around Thanksgiving with broken sprinkler heads at a local church escalated Tuesday into a full-blown vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and case that could qualify as a hate crime, sparking a local politician to offer a $10,000 reward. Members of Gethsemane Gethsemane (gĕthsĕm`ənē), olive grove or garden, E of Jerusalem, near the foot of the Mount of Olives. In the Gospels, it is the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus. Lutheran Church found ``GOD IS GAY'' and satanic symbols spray-painted on the roof of the building at 2723 Orange Ave. The vandals also broke playground equipment, a door and two screens. ``My own personal feeling is that it was probably just kids thinking they're funny or having fun or something,'' the Rev. Charles Pearson Charles Pearson (October 1793 - September 1862) was Solicitor to the City of London and an early promoter of the need for an underground railway in central London. Pearson was born in the City of London, the son of an upholsterer and feather merchant. said. ``But there are instances in history where people thought they were just having fun and it was acts of hate.'' In response to the vandalism, county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Investigators are treating the vandalism as a hate crime. The one-story building is all but obscured behind trees on a quiet residential street. It shares space with the Korean-language Evergreen evergreen, term commonly used as synonymous with conifer and applied also to all those broad-leaved plants that bear green leaves throughout the year. Of the latter, most are plants of the tropics, subtropics, and other areas where the growing season is prolonged (e. Church. Besides the graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. , the vandals ripped off a wooden door leading to the roof and threw it into a nearby drainage basin drainage basin: see catchment area. , removed a window screen and wrapped it around a wooden cross on the church roof at the back of the property and disconnected a green slide from the church playground. Pearson said he suspects that the vandals struck late Saturday. The church started suffering more minor acts of vandalism shortly before Thanksgiving. ``It's gotten the attention of the hate crime task force,'' said Detective Daniel Zumer of the county Sheriff's Department. ``It can be interpreted as a crime against religion.'' Anyone with information can call the Sheriff's Department Hate Crimes Division at (310) 603-3100. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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