Sept. 9-Oct. 22,2015 Campus Briefs

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San Francisco police are on the hunt for the person behind several racially offensive graffiti markings in the Mission district. The term “White Power” has been written or etched upon the face of businesses and murals with latino themes.

At least eight business or murals have been defaced by the slogans.

The vandalized murals add to a string of recent public defacement of prominent minority paintings in the city. An LGBT mural outside the Galeria de La Raza Cultural center was vandalized on three separate occasions in June. The third vandalism resulted in an arson attack.

“This is extremely dangerous, this is beyond just vandalism now, this is putting people’s lives in danger,” Officer Albie Esparza told the Examiner.

Witnesses described the arsonist to Police as a man with a cloth over his face, black pants, black sweatshirt and white shoes. The arsonist reportedly ran southbound on Bryant st toward 25th street after setting the mural on fire.

On the corner of 24th and Bryant, the mural depicts gay, lesbian and transgender Latinos. the mural had elicited homophobic responses on social media when it was unveiled in early June.

The Mission is not the only place Racially charged vandalism has appeared in the past month. Vandals broke into St Paul’s Tabernacle church on Oakdale ave in August, spray painting racial slurs and bleaching the pews.

The intruders reportedly scrawled “666” along the enclosed windows, and shattered two large mirrors. Since nothing was stolen, church deacon Marvin Osborne believes the intrusion was a hate crime.

–  Marco Siler-Gonzales/News Editor