Racial slurs left scrawled on a public chalkboard spark an investigation. <\/p>\n
Port St. Lucie Police say the words “KKK 4 Life” were found on the chalkboard at Pioneer Park Sunday. <\/p>\n
The board is designed by the city for public use, so police not the expressions written are generally considered a form of free expression. But the use of a racial slur violates city policies for engaging in activities at public parks. <\/p>\n
That means the person who wrote the phrase could face consequences, including a ban from city parks for up to one year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racial slurs left scrawled on a public chalkboard spark an investigation. Port St. Lucie Police say the words…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23644,749,23647,23645,171,173,172,23646,862,23643,23642,23641],"class_list":{"0":"post-240713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-am-tampa-bay","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-fox-news-radio","11":"tag-jack-harris","12":"tag-port-st-lucie","13":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","15":"tag-sean-hannity","16":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","17":"tag-tampa-bay-news","18":"tag-tampa-bay-traffic","19":"tag-tampa-bay-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}