Vancouver Mayor Ken Sims home targeted with hateful graffiti – BC [Video]

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is speaking out after his home was defaced with graffiti on Halloween night.

“Last night, my family’s home was defaced with hateful and racial slurs,” Sim said in a statement on Friday.

“I can’t fully express the pain of seeing these words sprayed across the place that my family and I call home. A home is supposed to be where you feel safe, and when that’s taken away, it’s absolutely heartbreaking.”

The graffiti was threatening toward Sim and his family and was written in several languages, including phrases that roughly translate to “Cover the family with a shovel” and “F*** your ancestors for 18 generations”, targeting the mayor’s heritage.

Another message, “Han settlers want land back,” alluded to the mayor as a colonizer.

Sim said this is not the first time his family has been targeted.

Earlier this year he received a threat that a bomb was placed under his …