{"id":37038,"date":"2025-11-12T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:10:48","slug":"rainbow-flag-waving-vandal-defaced-nyc-churches-with-anti-christian-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37038\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow flag-waving vandal defaced NYC churches with &#8216;anti Christian statements&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hateful vandal carrying a rainbow flag defaced at least three New York City churches with \u201canti-Christian\u201d graffiti, according to cops still hunting the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride flag-carrying suspect was also wearing a rainbow face covering when cameras caught them vandalizing the churches in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the early hours of Oct. 5, the NYPD said of the hate crime.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9751861;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37643798\" width=\"575\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/surveillance-image-released-dcpi-shows-115260739.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD are seeking the public's help in identifying the suspect.\" class=\"wp-image-37643798\"  \/>NYPD is seeking the public\u2019s help in identifying the suspect. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>The suspect \u2014 who was seen pushing a bicycle \u2014  first targeted the Refuge Church of Christ at 18-37 Mott Avenue around 1:40 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.19153675;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37643797\" width=\"535\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/surveillance-image-released-dcpi-shows-115260741.jpg\" alt=\"suspect\" class=\"wp-image-37643797\"  \/>The suspect defaced three Queens churches on Oct. 5. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later, the same perp vandalized the City of Oasis Church of Deliverance, which is about 100 feet away at 18-74 Mott Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Then around 2 a.m., the vandal struck at St. Mary\u2019s Star of the Sea Church at 19-20 New Haven Avenue, painting on the front of the church as well as over the faces of two religious statues there, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not reveal what the \u201canti-Christian statements\u201d were. <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating it as \u201cmultiple acts of criminal mischief as a hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hateful vandal carrying a rainbow flag defaced at least three New York City churches with \u201canti-Christian\u201d graffiti,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3307,10685,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-37038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-churches","9":"tag-hate-crimes","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038","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=37038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}