{"id":249983,"date":"2026-05-31T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:46:08","slug":"masked-weirdo-with-a-microphone-keeps-vandalizing-polish-consulate-in-nyc-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249983\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked weirdo with a microphone keeps vandalizing Polish consulate in NYC: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A masked-up weirdo decked out in camouflage and pictured ranting into a microphone with a portable PA system has repeatedly vandalized the Polish consulate in Manhattan, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops released pictures of the fashion-victim vandal wearing gloves, saying he first tagged the 125-year-old De Lamar Mansion in Murray Hill that houses the consulate on Wednesday around 7 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A masked-up weirdo decked out in camo and seen ranting into a microphone with a portable PA system has twice vandalized the Polish consulate in Manhattan, police said.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The vandal first tagged the 125-year-old De Lamar Mansion in Murray Hill that houses the Polish consulate on Wednesday around 7 p.m., cops said. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The vandal spraypainted the word \u201cterror\u201d in a black on a sign celebrating Polish women \u2013 before running off to parts unknown, according to cops and pictures of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The defacer spray painted \u201cterror\u201d in black paint on a sign outside the Polish consulate on Wednesday, according to cops and pictures of the incident.\u00a0 Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The graffiti-loving goon then returned to the scene early Friday morning to tag the consulate again, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolishCuisine\/status\/2060419498050544037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pictures posted on X<\/a> show the aftermath of the trashing \u2013 with door of the consulate and a bronze statue of Polish national hero and WWII veteran Jan Karski covered in red spray paint.<\/p>\n<p>Plaques and signs celebrating Polish heroes and the historic mansion were also hit, according to pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The spraypainter then returned to the scene early Friday morning to tag the consulate again, police said. He tagged a door and a bronze statue of Polish WWII hero Jan Karski red, pictures show. X\/OldTraditionalPolish<\/p>\n<p>Plaques and signs celebrating Polish heroes were also hit, according to pictures. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Plaques and signs celebrating Polish heroes were also hit, according to pictures. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Remnants of red spray paint still remained on the building\u2019s facade Sunday morning, pictures show.  Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Remnants of red spray paint still remained on the building\u2019s facade Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On his second visit to the consulate, the vandal was seen holding a portable PA system and ranting into a portable speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The painting perp disappeared into the wind after both incidents, police said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The photos of the suspect released by the NYPD show him wearing a green balaclava, a black jacket and red gloves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masked-up weirdo decked out in camouflage and pictured ranting into a microphone with a portable PA system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,21538,58,5614],"class_list":["post-249983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-poland","tag-us-news","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}