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Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, wrote on social media that "multiple synagogues and private homes in Queens were vandalized overnight with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti."

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

In Sacramento, police said protesters vandalized a federal building during a march in response to the shooting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

The school once had a garden with two life-size dinosaurs but it was vandalized in the 1990s and never restored, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Photos of vandalized Hyundai and Kia cars emerged then on Chinese social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Gunn made it a rule that there should be no retreat, that once a car was “reclaimed” it should never be allowed to be vandalized again.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell