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Posted on Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 5:30 p.m.

Ann Arbor police investigating graffiti inside Community High School

By John Counts

Someone spray-painted graffiti inside Community High School in Ann Arbor this week, police said.

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Community High School

Police were called to the school at 8:30 a.m. Friday morning to investigate the complaint, Lt. Renee Bush said.

Officers found graffiti in three locations inside the school: black paint on a window that read KETO, illegible black paint on a red door and the letter Q with other unreadable letters inside a boy's locker room, Bush said

Some of the graffiti was noticed earlier in the week but not reported to the police by school authorities until Friday morning.

The school is located at 401 N. Division St. in Ann Arbor. Detectives continue to investigate, Bush said.


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Comments

A2 Sense 1959

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 2:23 p.m.

Ket? (??) or ket?jin (???), a derogatory term in Japanese referring to a white person.

vida

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 12:43 p.m.

There are graffiti tags all over Slauson Middle School in the stairwells. They were made by a now 9th grade student - why haven't those made the news? And the administration knows who it is.

Goober

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 11:28 a.m.

A Community student defacing property with spray paint? This can't be!!! Go figure!

motorcycleminer

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 11:02 a.m.

Whats all the fuss ?? It was just a prototype for the new mural at the fema trailer ..excuse me city hall...due to " gotta-have-art " millage failure ,contract was let locally instead of the the " god knows who eastern art consortium and tax drain task force LLC " study group.

FreedomSpeech

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 6:27 a.m.

"black paint on a window that read KETO" Maybe they didn't know how to spell Kato? http://inspectorclouseau.com/sounds/imhome.wav Keith... Mick... Community High... ? http://youtu.be/u6d8eKvegLI http://inspectorclouseau.com/sounds/sol-ved.wav

FreedomSpeech

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 6:28 a.m.

"illegible black paint on a red door "

Dirty Mouth

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 2:24 a.m.

I'm a bit concerned that (evidently) pranksters have total access to the facilities without supervision or "checking-in" at the front office (2nd floor). You would think that in light of recent school shootings CHS would at least consider keeping tabs on who is running around the halls?

Dutchy734

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 4:43 a.m.

yes, be scared

Basic Bob

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 4:27 a.m.

It's part of the "culture". If they wanted rules, they could go to the "factory school".

Pehnny

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 1:54 a.m.

We were allowed to paint our lockers when I was there... As well as most walls, desks, bathroom stall doors, stairwells...

TheDiagSquirrel

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 12:51 a.m.

Someone was only illustrating the "diversity gap"...with spray paint

WalkingJoe

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 11:14 p.m.

I thought the whole idea behind Community High was artistic expression. Why all the fuss?

Billy

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 10:35 p.m.

Please don't call this garbage Graff.... This is not graff...this is tagging and this is vandalism...this is NOT art...

Usual Suspect

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 10:34 p.m.

Hmmm... the one who got thrown out of Forsythe for graffiti is in 9h grade now. Did he end up at Community?

Thoughtful

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 12:14 p.m.

Hes at Skyline.

BernieP

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 : 9:50 p.m.

Go around outside the building... you'll find more. My wild guess is one of two... entrpreneurial marketing groups staking out spring territories or disenfranchised malcontents and n'er do wells that would have been caught on camera.

Eli

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 : 6:44 a.m.

There are no cameras. Cool big words though, man.