Someone spray-painted graffiti onto the home of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim on Halloween – marking the latest in a string of incidents targeting the property this year.
Images of the graffiti, provided by Sim’s office, show messages scrawled across the garage doors of the home, including “Land back,” “Free Palestine,” and “Ken Sim hates poor people.”
Other messages are written in Chinese characters, including one that roughly translates to “(Expletive) your ancestors for 18 generations,” according to officials, who called the phrase “one of the most hateful insults in Chinese culture.”
In a statement, the mayor described the vandalism as hateful and racist, and revealed for the first time that his home was also targeted with a bomb threat earlier this year.
“As someone in public office, I understand that scrutiny comes with the job. But attacks on my family, on our safety and identity, cross a line that no …