{"id":361153,"date":"2026-06-15T08:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361153\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:16:33","slug":"video-posted-by-fresno-councilmember-shows-person-smashing-windshield-with-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361153\/","title":{"rendered":"Video posted by Fresno councilmember shows person smashing windshield with bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fresno Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fresno Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-12\/37ec2ce0-5e8c-11ec-b1fb-0027018c0b4f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sat, June 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"558\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fresno_bee_mcclatchy_299\/e03d0ed6b10cfa72710cfd1c5c188108.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A person was recorded attacking a vehicle in the Tower District Thursday afternoon, according to a video shared by Fresno city councilmember Miguel Arias.<\/p>\n<p> (Miguel Arias)<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified person is shown in a video attacking a vehicle after being confronted over graffiti, according to a video and social post from a Fresno city councilmember.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Miguel Arias shared a video Thursday that showed a man attacking a vehicle with a baseball bat in the Tower District.<\/p>\n<p>Arias said the attack had been recorded earlier that day. The person recording was sitting inside the vehicle and had just confronted the bat-wielding man for allegedly graffitiing the area, Arias said.<\/p>\n<p>The car&#8217;s GPS is visible at one point in the video and appears to have been parked near Olive and Palm avenues during the incident, according to what&#8217;s visible in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anyone can help identify him, it would be greatly appreciated. We need to hold him accountable for his actions,&#8221; Arias wrote, asking community members to message him with any information.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega said authorities are investigating the vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, June 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM UTC A person was recorded attacking a vehicle in the Tower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[146890,112,81665,114,113,8020,146889],"class_list":["post-361153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-baseball-bat","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-councilmember","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-miguel-arias","tag-unidentified-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361153","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=361153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}