SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco police are looking for a person who vandalized a house early Sunday, ripping down Ukrainian flags and doing extra harm. May or not it’s a hate crime? The house owner has kinfolk within the line of fireplace in Ukraine, and she or he spoke to the I-Workforce’s Dan Noyes.

The house owner did not wish to make an enormous deal out of this, with so many critical headlines world wide and right here at dwelling. However, acts of vandalism like this matter to the standard of life, in a metropolis that’s already struggling the results of a lot crime.

Leanna Dawydiak related with kinfolk in Ukraine for the primary time simply earlier than the pandemic, and traveled to Lviv to fulfill them. After Russia invaded, she seemed for some option to present her assist for Ukraine.

“To be trustworthy with you, if my Ukrainian was a bit bit higher, I might be over there. However I simply assume I might be extra bother as a result of my language expertise aren’t. I imply, they’re getting there, however they don’t seem to be there but.”

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The least she might do, she thought, was cling some Ukrainian flags and a wreath at her dwelling within the Inside Richmond neighborhood. Leanna was surprised to get up Sunday to this mess, planters tossed to the bottom and damaged, the going through on her home break up, and the flags torn down.

She advised the I-Workforce, “I wasn’t scared, I used to be simply actually pissed off. And I, you understand, it is like, I wish to exit and begin driving round, see if I might discover the man.”

Her surveillance cameras caught all of it, together with the vandal yelling, “I already talked to you about that.”

A person who seems to be white with lengthy, darkish hair bleached on the ends, sporting a San Francisco Giants jacket, rips down one flag, a planter falls with it. He tosses the flag on the street, and returns, to tear down the most important flag, throws each planters to the road, appears to toddle away, however returns to throw the out of doors furnishings off the porch.

LEANNA DAWYDIAK: “His focus was clearly the flags, the harm and the vandalism I feel was collateral to his — I do not know why, besides the one factor I might consider is what is going on on now. It is sort of a scorching subject.”

DAN NOYES: “You assume this was a hate crime?”

LEANNA DAWYDIAK: “I do, yeah.”

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Despite the fact that Leanna Dawydiak is a former SFPD sergeant and lawyer for the division, she needed to make a number of calls to get a police response- twice to 911, then to the native station. Police are checking one of many flags for fingerprints, making an attempt to establish this man.

If you understand this man, the police need your assist. Additionally, now we have a long-running listing of charities who’re doing good work for Ukraine, if you would like to indicate your assist that method.

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