THE INSIDER: From fake news to fake graffiti in the land of playground wars
Steven Marks ordered to stay away from a local school after police charged him with vandalising a playground with anti-Trump graffiti
A judge in Connecticut, US, has ordered a supporter of President Donald Trump to stay away from a local school after police charged him with vandalising a playground with anti-Trump graffiti. Yes, you read that right. The Hartford Courant reported that Steven Marks, 32, told police his cunning plan was to make the graffiti look like it was made by "liberals", reflecting the curious fact that the word means quite the opposite in the US to what it does in the UK, SA and most other English-speaking countries. Marks apparently went to the playground at Morley Elementary School to play fetch with his dog. He spotted a green highlighter on the ground and used it to scribble messages like "Kill Trump", "Left is best", "Bernie Sanders 2020" and "Death to Trump" on objects that included a bench, a book deposit bin and the playground’s welcome sign. The incident was caught by a surveillance camera and the footage released to the news media. When Marks saw it on the news, he called the police ...
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