A gay bar in Anchorage, Alaska has become the target of Nazi-loving vandals. Investigators found a sticker bearing a swastika posted on the exterior of the building.
Law enforcement officials have revealed they first received reports of the vandalism on May 25. The single sticker was found posted to the door of Mad Myrna’s, a local gay establishment. Investigators have further connected the crime to similar vandalism at the Alaska Jewish Museum, where the vandal had posted at least four stickers on the windows and door of the building.
The stickers themselves featured a swastika, along with the phrase “We are everywhere.”
The Anchorage Daily News reports that security video from the Jewish Museum taken the night of the attack revealed a single perpetrator: a tall thin man in a hood and mask, driving a scooter. Anchorage police have appealed to the public for information about the case.
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“What that sticker symbolizes is hate,” Anchorage police spokesperson MJ Thim said in a statement. “And we’re not going to stand for it, and there’s no place for it. And we’re going to investigate it and figure out what this is all about.”
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The Anchorage FBI office echoed that sentiment and will coordinate with police should the investigation turn up any evidence of federal crimes.
“If, in the course of the local investigation, information comes to light of a potential federal civil rights violation, the FBI is prepared to investigate,” FBI spokesperson Chloe Martin said in a statement.
Local LGBTQ activists also denounced the vandalism.
“Swastikas have also become a symbol of white supremacy and the far right, and actions like this disproportionately impact people of color in the LGBTQ community,” Laura Carpenter, executive director of Identity Inc., a statewide LGBTQ+ organization headquartered in Anchorage told the press. “This is just another example of people trying to demonize the LGBTQ community and Jewish people.”
The investigation remains ongoing.
BaltoSteve
“While local law enforcement isn’t surprised by the appearance of the stickers, they were a little nonplussed the stickers weren’t posted in the men’s room of the bar. ‘We see it time and time. The loudest homophobes usually are gay as well.'” Is a quote I would love to see in this story.
Doug
I agree, that would have been great! Wow… even Alaska!
hansniemeijer
get some matching paint if the stickers don’t come off.
Seth
Isn’t that just the RNC’s current business cards?
Mehki
I’m thinkng that 97 percent of so-called Nazis of today would have been the first ones in the ovens back then.
Have they looked in a mirror?
Man About Town
Not to mention, if the Axis powers had won World War II, do they think they would ever have been born? It knocks me out that these ignorant assholes actually think they’re being American patriots!
cuteguy
Is that the new slogan for the GQP now?
blackhook
Yet another dimwitted white ‘supremacist’ Trumpanzee hater who somehow didn’t get the memo that white ‘supremacists’ are *always* the biggest losers. Sad!
Thad
“We are everywhere”? No. No, you ain’t, Blanche.
chris_clb614
Too bad that (a) the city of Anchorage is among the largest American cities- in terms of square mileage, and at the same time, (b) the state of Alaska is among the least densely populated states.
Leash
growing up in germany and learning about what we did I was ashamed to be german, I always thought for doing something like that we must be especially derranged and evil. Now I know people in general are just garbage and it can happen everywhere. History keeps on repeating because some people refuse to learn.
“We are everywhere” guess what, we are too, no matter how hard you try you will never get rid of us, queer people will always be born.
Kevan1
We are also everywhere COWARDS.