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Suspect busted in S.F. French school graffiti vandalism
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Suspect-busted-in-S-F-French-school-graffiti-6643491.phpSan Francisco police arrested a 44-year-old man Wednesday suspected of spray painting a symbol on the French American International School in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood earlier this week that set off a brief panic after initial reports mistakenly linked the graffiti to the terrorist group ISIS....
The arrest stems from a perplexing symbol found spray painted on a playground wall at the school at 150 Oak Street. The symbol, a star and crescent surrounded by an eight-pointed star with the number seven in the middle, sent up red flags after it was first discovered and some media outlets mistakenly reported it was a depiction of an ISIS flag.
Police said they were investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, partly because the graffiti was found at a French school so soon after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
It turned out, however, that the symbol is actually the iconography used by the Five Percent Nation, a Nation of Islam offshoot started in the 1960s in Harlem, New York, by a student of Malcolm X, police said after doing a presumably brief Google search.
The arrest stems from a perplexing symbol found spray painted on a playground wall at the school at 150 Oak Street. The symbol, a star and crescent surrounded by an eight-pointed star with the number seven in the middle, sent up red flags after it was first discovered and some media outlets mistakenly reported it was a depiction of an ISIS flag.
Police said they were investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, partly because the graffiti was found at a French school so soon after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
It turned out, however, that the symbol is actually the iconography used by the Five Percent Nation, a Nation of Islam offshoot started in the 1960s in Harlem, New York, by a student of Malcolm X, police said after doing a presumably brief Google search.
