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    Police appeal over ‘senseless’ damage to seven statues during trans rights rally in London


    Police appeal over ‘senseless’ damage to seven statues during trans rights rally in London

    https://news.sky.com/story/police-appeal-over-senseless-damage-to-seven-statues-during-trans-rights-rally-in-london-13352521

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    1. ImABrickwallAMA on

      Usual stuff with any protest really. I can see where the protest is coming from, I completely get it, and you should use your rights to protest. But, the moment you start vandalising and damaging property you lose your argument. Mainly because all it does is reinforce the points of the people you’re protesting against.

    2. BeastMidlands on

      Bullshit story. The only thing they care about is that a statue got chalked up. The reasons they were protesting in the first place? Not that important apparently.

    3. ChaBeezy on

      The suffragettes being a repeated target of trans activists is not a good look, and no amount of deleted posts or Reddit down votes will change that.

    5. BigSneeze0021 on

      can someone explain to me what they’re protesting as if im 5? I dont rly know whats up with politics these days

    6. LambertAntiques on

      Someone caused public damage in the name of liberation and rights. I cant think of anything the Suffragettes would be more opposed to /s

    7. dpr60 on

      The council is responsible for removing graffiti from public spaces, there’s a law against it, you can be charged with criminal damage, even if it’s chalk. If they catch who did it, they’ll probably get a fine to cover the cost of sending a council worker out to clean it off, somewhere around the £100 mark.

      People have been caught out before, they think because it’s chalk it’s ok. The courts can be lenient and as far as I can tell they usually are but it’s still possible to get a criminal record for it that would show up on a DBS certificate.

    8. Deadliftdeadlife on

      So many comments about it being in chalk (so who cares right) when the very first picture in the article is very clearly in spray paint

      Just own it

    9. OdinForce22 on

      For fucks sake. This does not help us. There were enough signs. Graffiti wasn’t necessary.

    10. RedBerryyy on

      It’s funny, these papers were calling writing an agreeing message supporting human rights on a human rights campaigners statue violent,

      Meanwhile, [the times is literally running a double page spread supporting a guy who is straight up, right now going around threatening violence against any trans people he encounters outside](https://bsky.app/profile/hleehurley.com/post/3lnauvzfeoq23)

      but god forbid someone do some inoffensive writing in a temporary slightly impolite way on a statue after being essentially labelled a second class citizen by the government for no reason.

      edit: clarified it was a different paper