Ketchikan skatepark and trail defaced with racist, homophobic and otherwise hateful graffiti Posted by Eric Stone | Apr 13, 2021 Few traces of the graffiti remained Tuesday on a paved path near Schoenbar Middle School. (Eric Stone/KRBD) Ketchikan police are investigating racist and homophobic graffiti that appeared around an asphalt trail and a local skatepark over the weekend. Police say no suspects have been identified.
Barbara Burns was walking on Sunday morning with a friend on the trail near Schoenbar Middle School when she first noticed a drawing of male genitalia spray-painted on the asphalt. “We laughed. We thought it was funny, you know, kids having fun,” she said. “And then the swastikas started coming up, and then the hate speech, and it just disgusted us.”