Crime & Safety
South View Middle School Targeted in Profane, Racist Graffiti Attack
The names of the school's principal and nurse were spray painted onto the building near curse words, drug references and racist phrases.
The walls and windows of Edina's South View Middle School were sprayed painted with graffiti over the weekend.
Neighbors called Edina Police Sunday morning after they found the school covered with 30 to 50 graffiti tags: profanity, racist phrases, drug references and the names of the school's principal and nurse.
A team of custodians had sandblasted the tags off the building's exterior by the end of the day.
Edina school district officials and police are reviewing South View's motion-triggered security cameras in the hopes of catching the vandals.
"Whoever did this obviously wasn't kidding around," Michael McDonald, a seventh grader living near South View, told KARE 11. "They basically did this to the entire school."
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