Dekalb County Police are investigating one in what appears to be a series of racially motivated attacks on the Tupac Shakur Center for the Arts. The most recent incident involved the defacement of a bronze statue of the late Tupac Shakur on the center's grounds. The statue was found with a noose tied around its neck.
The officers, who have already arrested one individual believe this to be connected with a second attack that also occurred on the statue of Shakur when vandals drew crosses and wrote rants about Hurricane Katrina and various record labels. As a result they are investigating the events as "hate crimes".
Although being investigated under the legal term "hate crime" in Georgia basically means "Aww c'mon, I was just kiddin!"
Because of the incidents the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) recently began fundraising efforts to construct a fence around the parameters of the Center to secure the property.