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Richmond
Mischief at Empire Center

File # 2010-25494
2010-07-28 12:22 PDT

CPL. TURLEY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR A CLIP AT 3 P.M. AT RICHMOND DETACHMENT, 6900 MINORU BOULEVARD.

On July 22nd Richmond RCMP received a report of a mischief at the Empire Center located in the 4600 block of No 3 Road. The previous night two male suspects were captured on surveillance video writing graffiti on the walls of the parkade at the Empire Center.

The graffiti consisted of derogatory comments aimed towards people of Chinese origin however the majority of the graffiti was aimed at the police. No direct threat was made to anyone.

The investigation is continuing & police are actively working towards identifying the people responsible. Descriptions of the suspects is limited at this time to two Caucasian males.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Richmond RCMP at (604)278-1212 or if you wish to remain anonymous, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Cpl. Sherrdean Turley
Media Relations Officer
Richmond RCMP
6900 Minoru Boulevard, Richmond, BC V6Y 1Y3
Office: 604-207-4779
Fax: 604-278-6773
Email: [email protected]

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發表於 2010-7-28 23:05 | 只看該作者

Graffiti targets cops, Chinese
By Nelson Bennett, Richmond News July 28, 2010

A swastika scrawled next to a racial slur against Chinese Canadians could raise graffiti at Empire One Parkade in Richmond to a hate crime, say Richmond RCMP.

A swastika scrawled next to a racial slur against Chinese Canadians could raise graffiti at Empire One Parkade in Richmond to a hate crime, say Richmond RCMP.
Photograph by: Chung Chow, Richmond News

Richmond RCMP are looking for two white males who went on a twisted, sometimes racist rant with a felt marker at an Asian strip mall.

The two men, who were caught on security cameras, filled two levels of a stairwell at Empire One Parkade in the 4600 block of No. 3 Road with graffiti, which included threats against police and racist slurs.

One of the suspects wrote "F---k the Chinese" next to a Swastika, and wrote "KKK" beneath it.

They also wrote "187 a pig" and "187 on an undercover cop" and "F---k the police."

The term "187" is used by some police agencies to refer to a homicide, so the graffiti could be read as a threat against police.

The scrawls have all the earmarks of a tweaking crackhead indulging in a stream-of-consciousness rant.

"I just got out of jail and I'm high," one of them wrote.

The word "jailbird" also appears a few times. A number of individuals are also named in the kind sophomoric trash-talk one finds scrawled on high school bathroom stalls.

Cpl. Sherrdean Turley of the Richmond RCMP said the graffiti made "no direct threat" to anyone," but described it as "hurtful and disrespectful" and that RCMP would be making every effort to find the culprits.

Turley appealed to the public to contact the police if they know who the culprits are at 604-278-1212.

While graffiti typically would warrant a charge of mischief, Turley said the racism in the writing could raise the incident to a hate crime.

"Investigators will likely be looking at whether or not this is a hate crime," she said. "If it is determined that this fits into the category of a hate crime, then the investigation will be looked at accordingly."

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