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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Tuesday that leaders are focusing on the looting and property damage as a means to “distract us from the terrible violence that engulfs the lives of working people every day.” His remark follows days of violent riots which have resulted in the loss of innocent lives.

More than 170 St. Paul, Minnesota, businesses were looted or damaged during the riots over George Floyd’s death, police said.

A Houston, Texas, man who saw live coverage of the protests over George Floyd’s death in his city on television was inspired to take action in a positive way by cleaning the graffiti off of the vandalized buildings.

A war memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been vandalized with red spray paint overnight on Memorial Day.

Vandals have cut down the iconic iron cross surmounting the summit of Pic Saint-Loup in southern France, hewing through the vertical beam one meter above the base.

A California woman is accused of licking nearly $2,000 worth of grocery store items at a Safeway supermarket near Lake Tahoe.

London’s Metropolitan Police watched as Extinction Rebellion activists committed vandalism against government property by digging up grass outside of the Home Office.

France saw 1,457 vehicles set on fire across New Year’s Eve, surpassing the previous record of 1,290 vehicles torched across the country in the previous year, according to figures seen by French radio broadcaster Europe 1.

Christian sites in Europe suffered a record number of attacks in the year 2019, with some 3,000 Christian churches, schools, cemeteries, and monuments vandalized, looted, or defaced.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with vandalising a £20 million ($26 million) painting by famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.

Four Pakistani nationals were arrested in Barcelona earlier this week after they poured concrete on part of a memorial to the victims of the 2017 Barcelona terror attack.

A group of open borders activists vandalized with fake blood a government contractor in Boca Raton, Florida, that provides facility space for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to detain border crossers and illegal aliens.

Several vandals were caught on camera allegedly slashing a Missouri family’s Christmas decorations, according to a video of the incident.

Iraqi protesters burned down the home of Zainab Khazraji, a member of the Iraqi parliament, on Tuesday night. Local media reports said there was no apparent reason for targeting Khazraji and no political message was sent along with the vandalism.

Demonstrators in Hong Kong flung gasoline bombs at the office of China’s state-run Xinhua news agency on Saturday night, creating a scene likened by Xinhua employees to a “war zone.”

Vandals went through a graveyard in southwest France before dawn on Wednesday smashing anything relating to Christian symbolism, including dozens of stone crosses, crucifixes, and images of angels and the Virgin Mary.

Four thugs believed to have ties to China attacked a restaurant in northern Hong Kong on Thursday. The outlet is known for its support of the city’s pro-democracy demonstrators.

Hong Kong saw more huge protests over the weekend, many of them explicitly directed at the new emergency law forbidding demonstrators to wear masks. Police fired at protesters in the Mong Kok district, a frequent scene of large protests.

Swedish Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali, an outspoken critic of mass migration, said he might have to move house after his car was vandalised for the second time this year.

Hong Kong police shot a 14-year-old boy this weekend as protests continued across the city, growing more intense after chief executive Carrie Lam invoked long-dormant emergency powers and banned the wearing of masks in public.

Republican students at the University of Minnesota were not shocked to find their pro-Trump mural vandalized last week — it’s the fourth year in a row they’ve suffered vandalism.

“The last time we were in territory like this it was decided by civil war” — one thing I love about British constitutional historian and national treasure David Starkey is that he’s never knowingly understated, writes James Delingpole.

Authorities are seeking two unidentified individuals recorded while destroying a sand sculpture in the lobby of a Honolulu hotel.

Canadian police said gondola cables were cut deliberately on Saturday in Squamish, British Columbia, which sent cars crashing to the ground.

A woman was allegedly caught on camera defacing two Confederate monuments in North Carolina in the early hours of the Fourth of July, according to law enforcement.

A group of First and Second World War military graves that were discovered smashed on the D-Day 75th Anniversary have been restored by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which vowed to maintain the graves “today, tomorrow and forever.”

The Michigan GOP headquarters in Lansing, Michigan, has been vandalized for the second time in a three-day span, Breitbart News learned Tuesday.

The GOP headquarters in Lansing, Michigan, was defaced over the weekend with graffiti targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A Confederate monument located in Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, was vandalized on Monday with red spray paint and the words “They were racists.”

Police are investigating and appealing for information after a number of graves, the majority of which were military graves, were found desecrated as allied nations commemorated the bravery and loss of life on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. 

A New Jersey man who was arrested and charged after he was recorded urinating on a memorial for a nine-year-old boy has now also lost his job.

A South Carolina mayor proclaimed herself a victim of racism after finding her car defaced, but police had a more logical explanation.

A Florida statue based on the iconic “Kissing Sailor” photo depicting a sailor kissing a woman to celebrate the end of World War II was vandalized shortly after news broke that the World War II veteran in the photo died.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) released a video Saturday of a woman smashing a Bronx eatery’s window out of anger because the restaurant ran out of beef patties, police said.

The NYPD said Monday afternoon that two men suspected of defacing Brooklyn homes with anti-Semitic drawings have been arrested.  

The NYPD is investigating a clique of vandals after a metal pipe was thrown through a window of a New York City synagogue, authorities say.