The Atlanta lawyer helping two men and a business sue a group of graffiti taggers found a message spraypainted in bright green on the side of his building over the weekend.
“Defacing [stuff] is fun!”
Terry Jackson filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against graffiti taggers and street artists on behalf of two Edgewood Avenue residents and a metal supply business in Fulton County State Court.
Several of them have denied their part in the graffiti tags that have colored the Edgewood Avenue and Jenkins Metal Supply building for years. They also have struck back with lawsuits of their own.
It’s unclear whose hand was on the spray paint can that left the “defacing” message as well as another profanity-laced one on the front of the Old Fourth Ward building. The building owned by the two Edgewood Avenue men who brought the suit has been left untouched since the original lawsuit was filed.
Jenkins Metal Supply appeared to have fresh graffiti over the weekend.
“This contact is not inconsistent with the defendants’ intentional vandalism of occupied-owner property,” Jackson told the AJC. “If the defendants or any of their cohorts believe that this will deter us from proceeding with the lawsuit against them – and other defendants that will be named at a later date -- they are mistaken.”
Jackson has filed a report with the Atlanta police department.
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