A masked man assaulted an Anchorage Daily News photographer on Friday afternoon while he was on assignment. The photographer came away from the scuffle with a scrape, but was otherwise uninjured.
Political campaign signs at the intersection of 100th Avenue and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage on Monday, April. Anchorage Daily News photographer Loren Holmes reported being assaulted here while on assignment on Friday.
Ship Creek Group partner Ira Slomski-Pritz said he thinks it’s likely that Holmes’ assailant and the sign vandalism are connected. “It’s pretty unambiguous that this is a targeted effort to destroy signs,” Slomski-Pritz said. “Like, the frames are sawed up, the signs are disappeared, the sandbags are cut and spilled open so they can’t be reused. Sometimes there’s graffiti on the signs.”
Anchorage Police spokesperson Renee Oistad said counts of vandalism and theft of political signs are not readily available, so the trend is just anecdotal at this point.Slomski-Pritz said he assumes police act in good faith to investigate reports of campaign vandalism, though limited resources and information mean they are rarely resolved. He thinks Holmes’ case deserves more attention because there was actual violence.
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