A community meeting held in home team’s locker room at the Rose Bowl Saturday tried to address and answer questions about two reports of racist graffiti in Northwest Pasadena during the past 2 weeks. The first incident occurred Aug. 8, when vandals tagged 20 pieces of property including cars.
Some new evidence emerged one of two racist graffiti incidents in Pasadena Saturday when Police Chief Phillip Sanchez announced that they had surveillance video of one of the suspected vandals although admittedly the tape is “grainy” making an ID difficult.
Aproximately 100 Civic leaders, police officers, clergy, concerned citizens and volunteers got together to talk of the recent attacks which aren’t classified as Hate Crimes as no one was injured in these incidents.
Many in the audience appeared frustrated that there was little that could be done but Sanchez pointed out that neighborhood watches would indeed be a good start if not already implemented and to call the police as soon as anyone witnesses a crime in progress.
There were perhaps more questions than aswers at the meeting but as one person said…”It’s a beginning…we need to be more vigilant of our surroundings and not quite so apathetic.”