Minneapolis mayoral candidate says his campaign office was vandalized [View all]
Minneapolis mayoral candidate and state Sen. Omar Fateh says his campaign office was vandalized this week, with an Islamophobic message and threat graffitied on a wall.
In a news release late Wednesday, Fateh’s campaign said it filed a police report over the incident, in which someone wrote “Somali Muslim — This warning is no joke” on the building.
“The senator has received a steady stream of hate, racial, and Islamophobic slurs, and violent threats to the campaign email, his Senate email, and across social media,” the campaign reported.
In a statement, Fateh said his campaign “will not be deterred by hate speech and vandalism. We will not back down to Islamophobia. I will not be bullied or intimidated.”
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/25/minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-omar-fateh-campaign-office-vandalized