Vandals paint Port McNeill
By Teresa Bird – North Island Gazette [British Columbia]
Published: August 26, 2008
Updated: August 27, 2008
PORT McNEILL [Kwakwaka’wakw Nation territory] – A spray painting spree has led to charges against three youth.
Sometime during the night of Aug. 19, more than 20 vehicles and a dozen downtown businesses were sprayed with racist and personal comments directed primarily at local RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police].
The vehicles, many of them newer model trucks, were parked in a long-term parking lot across from the marina on Beach Drive. Racist slurs as well as other markings were painted in bright blue on nearly every vehicle parked in the lot.
Storefronts, windows and the sides of larger buildings at the Pioneer Plaza, Peoples Drug Mart, Sundown Market and the Gallery were also scrawled with bright blue paint and comments against police.
The exact cost of the damage is unknown but the three youths have been arrested for mischief over $5,000 and charges have been recommended, says an RCMP press release. The youth have been released. Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the names of the youth cannot be released as they are all under the age of 18.
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