Vandalism is a mundane crime. It's not a felony. Isn't associated with jail or prison sentences. Drug trafficking and adiction isn't vandalism. These aren't mundane crimes and they have devastated your country because it was poorly handled by overly repressive government response. Writting ACAB on a church isn't a hate crime nor a major crime nor even a noteworthy event during a protest. A protest that ends with a gaffiti on a church as only damage is a protest that went well all things taken into account and is a very small price to pay for the right to protest which is essential to any healthy democracy. You wouldn't want to stiffle the ability to organise protests, large or small, on the pretext that some buildings suffer very minor and easily repaired damage or streets risk being covered in extra detritus for a few hours.
It's so mundane I wouldn't even report it to the police because that's just too tedious. If it became a common occurance I would probably report it, but not expect much action from the police since it's such a minor crime that it would probably be a the bottom of their pile unless I get my fellow citizens to get all pissy about it.
There is a difference between something "not being a big deal" and "something being okay". Damaging someone's property is bad, but such a light easily reperable damage, it's not worth making a big fuss over it. Calling a ACAB graffiti on church a hatecrime is tantamount to libel and clearly out of place. That's not what hatecrimes are and hate crimes are serious accusations. Calling it vandalism and wrong is right, but most people don't care about small time vandalism that happens once in a while during protests or day to day life. We all live with it just like we live with people jaywalking, cutting traffic, jumping stop signals, speeding, throwing trash on the floor or taking a **** in public, etc.
