Graffiti spotted at Colorado Springs welcome sign
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Springs police are investigating after someone spray-painted messages and threw red paint on the welcome sign along Interstate 25.
In the photo sent by a viewer, someone spray-painted a message that appears related to the officer-involved shooting of De'Von Bailey. Red paint can be seen splattered across 'Colorado Springs'.
"The City has responded to address the vandalism per its normal procedures. Code enforcement cleaned the graffiti just after 8:00 this morning” says Kim Melchor with the City of Colorado Springs communication office.
The Colorado Springs Neighborhood Services Quality of Life Team took just over three hours to complete their first clean-up.
The red paint splattered all over the sign was still wet when their crews arrived. By mid-afternoon, a second crew came out clean up excess paint that had leaked through the crevices.
According to previous reporting, the welcome sign was revamped earlier in 2019 at a cost of $217,000. That money was raised through private donors.
A Devon Bailey activist, Rachel Stovall told KRDO, "I was extremely shocked and dismayed but I felt like I understood why."
Bailey, 19, was shot and killed by CSPD officers back in August, following reports of a robbery. Last month, Fourth District Attorney Dan May announced that there will be no criminal charges filed against those officers.
Stovall was among the people who testified at the city council meeting on Tuesday morning expressing their concern over tension between Bailey supporters and Colorado Springs police.
Council President Richard Skorman said, "we need to keep having conversations. We need to reach out to that community and make sure they understand and that we want to be good, a good police department for the neighborhood, proactive in the terms of making sure people feel comfortable with us."
On Friday, De'von Bailey's memorial was taken down by Colorado Springs police angering those who put it up. Soon after, supporters were back out re-spray painting the sidewalk. On Saturday, protesters interrupted the Festival of Lights parade.
Stovall says it worked to get the city's attention but no more incidents are planned, and hopes the city sits down to talk with them.
Thugs are going to be thugs.
Find them and make them pay for this.
How does anyone support a pedo criminal?
Special needs.
Probably the same lawbreaking person(s) who spray painted the area around the makeshift memorial that was recently removed. Seems like De’Von Bailey’s “friends” are not nice people.
They tried to ruin the Christmas parade and now they are destroying landmarks.
Devon continues to be a bad presence through his thug fans.
“and if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.”
Dont like to see anything vandalized, however don’t like the Olympic City designation as the Olympic organization has had many issues in the past. Why cant we be home to America’s Mountain???
They continue to prove how trashy they are. We will be reading about them in the news soon when they they don’t listen to the police either. This is why welfare should be cut off. They have too much free time to break the law.
Leave the graffiti, just change the city name to ColoMexiFornia.
His low life friends and family are not going to quit until they ruin everything. Land of the free and the home of the thugs.
The tagger got what they wanted: publicity, courtesy of KRDO.
1. He was an arrested Child Molester, awaiting trial.
2. He was reported earlier to have a weapon while involved in an armed robbery nearby.
3. He ran from police, and his hands disappeared.
4. He got shot, and deservedly so. Better him than the officer.
The protesters at the parade were high school drama queens who’s parents didn’t know they were out playing. The two ladies in the street, holding up the parade? Drama queens. Now the protesters, interested in making out community a better place are vandalizing it, and ruining signs and parades.
Lessons:
1. Don’t molest children.
2. Don’t rob people at gunpoint.
3. Don’t run from the police after you are reported to have a gun.
4. “Let me see your hands” means, Show your hands at all times, even when running.
5. If you don’t understand 1-4, you should get shot, will get shot, and the police are justified in doing so.
Promise Lee (convicted murderer), James Tucker (Fired by the NAACP as president for extreme idiocy) and all of the similar morons can go back to being idiots in their own homes.
I missed the fact of his previous arrest on Child Molestation and being out on bail for that. I wonder if that was left out of the original story that I read?
There seems to be a lot of play that the report of Armed robbery was an false report. The officers who approached him did not know that at the time. I have to wonder why he was running from the police? He may not be as innocent as these people are putting him out to be!
Yep!