{"id":198962,"date":"2026-03-01T05:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198962\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:21:24","slug":"man-accused-of-vandalizing-san-francisco-church-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198962\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of vandalizing San Francisco church \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested and accused of vandalizing a church with antisemitic and homophobic graffiti in San Francisco Saturday, the police department said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers responded to a report of antisemitic and homophobic graffiti on a church on the 2800 block of California Street at around 8:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers found the church buildings and city utilities graffitied with swastikas and other antisemitic and homophobic words, according to authorities. They added the damages exceeded $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>The police department said 51-year-old Sadat Mousa was identified as the suspect, and he was arrested and booked in the San Francisco County jail on suspicion of felony vandalism with a hate crime enhancement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kind of hateful act will never be tolerated in our city,&#8221; SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said. &#8220;We will do everything in our power to protect our communities and ensure justice is served in this case. I want to thank our officers who acted swiftly to make an arrest in this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police department reported this is an ongoing investigation, and asked anyone with information to contact them at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/man-accused-of-vandalizing-san-francisco-church\/4044933\/tel:14155754444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1-415-575-4444<\/a> or Text-A-Tip to TIP411 and begin your message with &#8220;SFPD.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested and accused of vandalizing a church with antisemitic and homophobic graffiti in San Francisco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-198962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}