{"id":785327,"date":"2026-07-07T04:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785327\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:44:18","slug":"man-charged-for-allegedly-vandalizing-b-c-rainbow-crosswalk-for-second-time-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785327\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for allegedly vandalizing B.C. rainbow crosswalk for second time | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783399458_687_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 6, 2026 | 12:42 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 Police say one of the two men charged for allegedly vandalizing a Metro Vancouver rainbow crosswalk in May has been charged again for defacing of the same location.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Surrey say in a statement that 67-year-old Errol Povah is now facing a second count of mischief over $5,000 after the crosswalk at Holland Park was vandalized on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>The crosswalk was initially sprayed with black paint during a protest on May 30, where a video and photos shared by protesters showed two people marking the rainbow walkway.<\/p>\n<p>Povah and 58-year-old Amrit Birring \u2014 leader of the Freedom Party of B.C. \u2014 were each charged with one count of mischief over $5,000 in the May case, and police say Birring turned himself in and was released with conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-785327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}