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Hub Staff

Another hate crime has recently been reported in Saugeen Shores.

Brade Stanton, a Saugeen Shores resident, was walking a client's dog on Town property and came across what he called a "vile spewing of hate."

Some of the graffiti is reported to have been there since the summer, including sexually explicit imagery and homophobic slurs, but new paint called for racially motivated and homophobic violence and included two swastikas, one of which appeared below the words, "Hail Trump Victory."

In a post shared to Facebook November 2, shortly after he witnessed the graffiti and reported it to police, Stanton remarked on what was then the upcoming US election. "What it says about where we are in these trying times, appearing as the world holds its breath on the outcome of the US election, is heartbreaking," he said.

"I can't even begin to say how disappointing and deeply disturbing it was to find," Stanton said.

Saugeen Shores Police are calling it a hate motivated crime and, in a November 2 media release, said that such crimes "have a harmful impact on the community" and cause "emotional trauma to the identified groups."

In a message to Saugeen Shores Hub Wednesday, Stanton called the experience "awful" but the response "reassuring."

In the final words of his November 2 Facebook post, Stanton said, "It feels like we are in a final battle over the world we want to live in. Let us hope the better side of humanity triumphs over the darkness it feels is so often closing in."

At the time of publishing, the results of the November 3 US election were still unknown as mail-in ballots continued to be counted. With 270 electoral votes needed to claim victory, Associated Press was reporting Joe Biden had 264 electoral votes and Donald Trump had 214.