Vandals should be prosecuted

1 News reported:

Police are treating the vandalism of a rainbow pedestrian crossing on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd this morning as a “hate crime” and have carried out a search of a property in the city’s south.

White paint was spread across the design, which depicts the LGBTTQIA+ flag.

The incident was reported to police at around 3.20am.

The people who painted over the crossing are vandals, and should face consequences for it. Your political beliefs do not give you the right to vandalise either pedestrian crossings or displays at Te Papa.

But it is curious that when retailers fine it impossible to get police to investigate thefts, even with video footage, when shoplifters are ignored until media reports, when many crimes take months to be actioned, the Policer treat painting a pedestrian crossing as so high priority they have the search warrants out within hours.