BOSTON (AP) - Several Boston city councilors who voted in favor of the mayor’s $3.6 billion budget that largely maintained police department funding have been targeted by vandals who plastered fliers resembling report cards on their homes.
Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George told WFXT-TV the posters were placed on a fence before sunrise Saturday.
She said the report cards were put out by a group called FTP Boston, a group she met with recently.
“If we can’t have conversations and if vandalism is the way to approach this work it’s not going to be productive, it’s not helpful for anyone here in the city,” Essaibi-George said.
The vandalism was condemned by Council President Kim Janey and Mayor Marty Walsh, the Boston Herald reported.
“Over the weekend a number of my colleagues on the City Council were targeted at their homes. As President, let me be clear: Vandalism is unacceptable!,” Janey tweeted.
“Trying to get a message across by targeting people’s homes and their personal space is wrong,” the mayor said Monday.
The budget was passed 8-5 last week after intense debate over racial justice and the police department’s budget in light of nationwide protests calling for cities to defund police departments.
Twenty percent of Boston’s budget goes to police.
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