A 31-year-old gun-control activist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly vandalizing the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Johnathan Andrew Tijerina is accused of spray-painting the address of his anti-gun website over the engraved names of some of the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.
‘To deface this sacred site is absolutely disgusting and deeply disrespectful to the victims.’
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A source familiar with the matter told Blaze News that the Port Authority Police Department received a tip from the 9/11 Memorial Museum around 5 p.m. on Monday that an individual had been detained in connection with vandalism of memorial panels on the north side of the memorial’s north reflecting pool.
Tijerina was placed under arrest by PAPD officers, then later transferred to Manhattan Central Booking,
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