vandalism

Schools throughout Northern Virginia are alerting parents about a new social media trend that promotes students to vandalize school property. Opening the social media app TikTok and searching the word “devious” has pulled up thousands of videos of a trend called “devious licks.” Students are recording TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing bathrooms or stealing property from schools and sharing them…

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports on a social media trend involving vandalizing schools and posting the video online.

Several Pride flags were vandalized or stolen in Lovettsville, Virginia.

Montgomery County police are investigating the incident that the local Jewish community calls an act of antisemitism. News 4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Three women have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the one-time Northern California home of a former police officer who testified on behalf of the former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin by splashing pig blood on it and leaving a pig’s head near the front porch.

Santa Rosa police say a bizarre crime in the area is related to the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Security footage captured a couple in Seoul, South Korea, accidentally vandalizing a painting worth $500,000 after thinking the display was participatory art.

Prince George’s County Police are talking to witnesses and searching for video evidence after nearly 20 senior citizens got their cars smashed up over the weekend in Upper Marlboro.

Prince George’s County police are still investigating how nearly 20 cars were vandalized at a senior apartment complex. They’re asking anyone with information that can aid in this investigation to give them a call.

D.C. police released surveillance images of the people who tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter sign from the front of the Asbury United Methodist Church at 11th and K streets NW.

During Saturday’s rallies in support of President Trump, a Black Lives Matter sign was destroyed. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to police. Darcy Spencer reports for News4 on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020.

Black Lives Matter D.C. condemned vandalism to several downtown churches that took place during Saturday night’s protests, claiming D.C. police officers “physically protected white supremacists, as they threatened lives, damaged historic churches and destroyed and burned property.” Black Lives Matter organizers and one of the churches claim the damage was done by members of the Proud Boys and by...

After a day of demonstrations in support of President Trump, unrest in downtown D.C. has left several injured, including officers. Darcy Spencer reports for News4 on Saturday Dec. 12, 2020.

Authorities in Idaho are investigating after what’s believed to be the only memorial in the U.S. dedicated to Holocaust victim Anne Frank was desecrated with Nazi propaganda earlier this week, NBC News reports.

Angry crowds took to the streets in West Philadelphia overnight after police shot and killed a man armed with a knife Monday, with some in the crowds throwing rocks and bricks at police and some looting or vandalizing businesses.

A community in Rockville is searching for answers after their cars were vandalized with a BB gun over the weekend. Transportation reporter Adam Tuss spoke with residents who now have to repair smashed windows.

Members of a Maryland community found hate speech scrawled on a high school football field and some parents now want the suspected vandals to face hate crime charges.  The act is not a hate crime under current Maryland law. While the law will change on Oct. 1, it’s unlikely to apply retroactively to the case.  The N-word was scrawled...

A racial slur was painted on the high school’s football field Sunday evening. Classrooms were also broken into and vandalized. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke to parents who want to see the vandals face hate crime charges.

A federal grand jury indicted a D.C. man Tuesday and charged him with spray painting the Lincoln Memorial during protests against racial injustice in late May. U.S. Park Police officers said they saw 26-year-old Micah Avery spray paint “Yall not tired yet?” on the memorial on May 30. Avery ran off when the officers approached him, but the officers...

Customers of an Alexandria coffee shop are showing support for the owner after a run-in with a patron who refused to wear a mask. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.