EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of painting swastikas on more than 200 gravestones at a southern Illinois cemetery has been charged with criminal damage, institutional vandalism and hate crimes.
Aside from the alleged vandalism at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Glen Carbon, Timothy V. McLean is accused of daubing the Nazi symbol on houses, cars and mailboxes there and in nearby Edwardsville over the Memorial Day weekend.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the 34-year-old McLean is also suspected of painting swastikas on area churches in April.
McLean is being held on two $100,000 bonds at the Madison County Jail in Edwardsville, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
It isn’t clear if McLean has an attorney who can comment on his behalf.
Reading this guy’s history of crimes and mental health issues, I suppose we should be glad he was using a paintbrush or spray can rather than a gun.
200 holy shit that seems like a lot!
I wonder whether any of those swastikas were actually going the right direction. The left-facing ones in the picture were common in pre-WWII Buddhist iconography but didn’t appear on the Nazi flag.
Today’s Nazis are too stupid to even draw the symbol correctly.
Exactly - one guy? - lot of time - lot of cans of spray paint - the typical hate filled ass-hole would probably have gotten bored after 15 or 20 … and totally fatigued out at about 30 … and most people if they pushed on would have totally lost all feeling in their spray-paint-nozzle-pushing finger by about 60 … this is dedicated hate - or true mental illness