Franklin School Looking for Vandals Caught on Video

Looks like they are 10 year old kids. I bet this would not have been an all points bulletin if the children were caucasian. A janitor giving that wall a few swipes of green paint wouldn't cost anyway near $700.

Having a janitor slap some green paint on is going to look like a graffiti cover up Generaltree.
That figure is more likely to repaint the wall correctly, school name and all.
Why shouldn't Franklin school have some pride in their facility and demand their damaged wall be restored properly? Why would the school treat this differently based on race? They had a wall vandalized and they want the kids to learn some respect, pretty sure they want that regardless of color or age.

Did the person who stood by and made this detailed video ever call the cops? It's crazy if not!

I'm amazed he or she didn't run out, seeing they weren't gun toting ex-con brusiers doing the tagging & run them off. Amazing

Why does race always have to come into comments. Doesn't matter what race or color the brats were, they did wrong.

It almost looks like there is a hole and they appear to be kicking it in addition to writing on it.

In full daylight, in full view on a public street. This was no hit in the middle of the night. It was a prank committed by those who have no sense of choices have consequences. Never to early to teach that they in fact do. Community service cleaning up graffiti in the rest of town is a good and proper response. Along with a remedial course about private property as well as who really has to pay for damaging public property. Teaching moment, Franklin School. Give this your best shot.

girls,... look out - not as sweet as you think. I hope they're recognized and reprimanded for this behavior.

It’s recess. This is a school disciplinary responsibility.

Not racial either. Racists seem to want to keep racism alive. No one said anything about race but you.

KEYT is now reporting that the cops caught the little sweeties. Hopefully, the young charmers will be given LOTS of community service work and their parents will have to pay for repairs to the sign.

Interesting, comments accusing this of a racist situation are fine and left up. I asked why everything has to start with "race" and I get deleted. ????? Can someone explain?

FLICKA - I was just about to reply to your comment about racist comments and then you were deleted. Yes, it is a problem here with racist comments (many much worse than anything on this article) being left up, while comments that point them out or refute them are deleted due to down-votes. It's a bummer, I know.

Here is a quote from the KEYT article. Sounds like the person taking the video had more interest in making the video and self-promoting than stopping the crime.

"Patty Coronado said she happened to be looking at the playground on Sunday when she saw the teens and decided to video their behavior on her smartphone. It appears they jumped the fence."

"Coronado said it shows some kids need more things to do. She runs a nonprofit called Taking Good Out of Little People that takes children on outings after school and on weekends."

Even if these kids did more damage than what is shown here, $700 is far beyond reasonable for some minor damage to a handball court! This wild inflation of vandalism costs is pretty standard behavior because it allows the victimized party to collect free money in restitution with absolutely no accountability in the numbers. Law enforcement actually encourages this shady overestimation because they now get to make a felony arrest. Being held accountable for their dumb actions is one thing, but dumping a felony onto these kids simply out of greed, incompetence, and/or vindictiveness (talking about Franklin School AND law enforcement) is quite despicable.