LOS ANGELES (KNX) — Vandals ransacked a bank near The Grove early Saturday morning, smashing windows and spray-painting messages about Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse after Friday’s verdict.
Police responded sometime around 12:45 a.m. to the Chase Bank at Beverly Blvd. & Fairfax Ave.
The glass front doors and several exterior windows shattered almost entirely. In addition, the digital screen of an ATM was smashed.
Tagged messages covered the walls, sidewalk, and a bus stop outside. Phrases included “Kill Kyle,” “Kyle is a killer,” “Kill Trump,” and “F––– Rittenhouse.”
An alarm rang for some time in a video posted by a witness, Sean Carmitchel, who said he could hear a group yelling “Kill Kyle” shortly after the building had been damaged.
A jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse Friday morning of all five counts he faced for shooting three people, killing two of them, during protests in Kenosha, Wis. after Jacob Blake was shot last year.
Former President Donald Trump released a statement congratulating and praising Rittenhouse on the not guilty verdict. Later, in an interview on FOX News, Trump called Rittenhouse the "poster boy" of "innocence based on self defense."
LAPD ran into the bank yelling, “Come out with your hands up!” according to Carmitchel.
The witness also reported police making several arrests nearby on suspicion of vandalism, citing sources who said investigators believed a group of at least three people were responsible for the property destruction.
Officers remained on scene as crews boarded up the building's fractured facade.
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