{"id":21574,"date":"2023-12-19T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21574"},"modified":"2023-12-19T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:03:35","slug":"washington-state-community-vandalized-with-anti-israel-slogans-across-dozens-of-buildings-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21574","title":{"rendered":"Washington State community vandalized with anti-Israel slogans across dozens of buildings: police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police in Washington state are searching for the suspects involved in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/terror\/vandalism\"><u>vandalizing over 50 buildings<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;with calls for a &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; and &#8220;free Palestine.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">According to a post on Facebook from the Edmonds Police Department, on Saturday morning, dozens of business owners in Edmonds reported being vandalized with calls to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/israel\"><u>end the Israel-Hamas War<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;painted in red on their windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Overnight, multiple businesses downtown (several blocks near 5\/Main) were tagged with posters and graffiti. The graffiti stated &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; or &#8220;cease fire&#8221;, police posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police added that no threats were made to anyone or any groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I believe in freedom of speech and freedom to say what we think, and we care about in this life, but I don\u2019t think that warrants moving in on someone else\u2019s property,&#8221; Joan Archer, owner of Aria Studio Gallery, told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13seattle.com\/news\/edmonds-police-look-for-suspects-who-defaced-40-50-business-on-main-street\"><u>Fox 13 Seattle<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Archer added that someone wrote &#8220;End the occupation&#8221; on her business window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">FOX 13 News was able to secure surveillance video from another business owner which shows about five people, dressed in all black, walking down the street around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The video is now in the possession&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/washington\"><u>of the Edmonds Police.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officers are working to identify the suspects in the video and have not yet released any information on them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/washington-state-community-vandalized-anti-israel-slogans-dozens-buildings-police\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Washington state are searching for the suspects involved in&nbsp;vandalizing over 50 buildings&nbsp;with calls for a &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; and &#8220;free Palestine.&#8221; &nbsp; According to a post on Facebook from the Edmonds Police Department, on Saturday morning, dozens of business owners in Edmonds reported being vandalized with calls to&nbsp;end the Israel-Hamas War&nbsp;painted in red on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[25113,3707,1237,2195,1303,6243,25114],"class_list":["post-21574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-anti-israel-signs","tag-buildings","tag-police","tag-search","tag-suspect","tag-vandalism","tag-washington-state-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21577,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions\/21577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}