Friday, February 17, 2012
News Lawyer says new victims — and vandals — will be added to $1 million graffiti lawsuit
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Metro Assault
- Hense (piece to the right) is named in a $1 million graffiti lawsuit with a number of other local taggers and graffiti artists.
Last April, Stan Mobley and Dave MacDonald, two Edgewood Avenue residents who'd grown tired of seeing their brick home overtaken with graffiti, emboldened community advocates and surprised legal observers by suing several people — along with "25 additional unnamed defendants known only by their tag" — who they claimed were responsible for defacing their property. The duo wanted $1 million in punitive damages for intentional destruction of property and emotional distress from such well-known Atlanta taggers and graffiti artists as Hense, Ghost and NOPE .
But save for the Mobley and MacDonald's attorney's office getting vandalized and a countersuit from some of the men named in lawsuit, things have been relatively quiet since the suit was filed last April.
Well, Terry Jackson, Mobley and MacDonald's lawyer, says that despite the lack of news in recent months, the lawsuit is still very much alive. He told CL via email today that they've identified more victims — and graffiti artists — and are adding them to the lawsuit.
"We have identified several more and will be adding them as parties," he writes.
The city and Atlanta Police have stepped up efforts to remove graffiti and uncommissioned public art and pursue the people behind the murals, scribbles, and tags. Late last year, the APD arrested some of the city's most prolific graffiti artists — two of whom are scheduled to appear in Atlanta Municipal Court on March 7.
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I will be there at the court with pic's of the tags in my neighborhood ..... I want the vomet guy along with his side kick to get prison time and have to do over 2k hours of clean up time to clean up his trash .... and maybe he will tell the police more of his gang/club of friends who yet has been busted for tagging ..... I have over 1000 clips of tags . I will post his name and I will post that address of the other tagger who are their close tagger friend .....
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I've seen Hense's tags for years all over the city and I have to admit (and perhaps because I'm an urban gal, born and bred), I enjoy the quality of art in some of his and others work.
There's a mural on Jonesboro Road on the corrugated wall of the A-Tow lot between Lakewood Avenue and McDonough Blvd. that clearly is the work of those who got their start or still work in that particular art milieu, but is a wonderful representation of the community, tells a story and is a welcome improvement over the bland beige wall that it once was. The neighborhood actually embraces it and finds it a spot of beauty that is often hard to find.
I get that some may find this particular type of art (yes, it IS art) offensive, but you aren't in Kansas anymore either. Instead of working against them so vigorously, imagine what good they could do in working with local neighborhoods in helping to beautify areas. This action isn't going to deter most of them and I doubt if any judgement will ever be collected. Who knows, the publicity generated might work in favor of the artists and they end up getting a gallery interested in showing their work and selling pieces. That, for me, would be poetic justice.
Don't matter who I am but please tell Michael Norman Godman better known as enzo that I was the one who came up with who he was and I was the one who gave the city of Atlanta police a pic of him and his full name .... you would think some people would learn the first few times being busted for the same ole thing ...
It would be one thing if it was a child who was busted but we are talking about grown men who don't give a shit about my neighborhood or property that they break into to do their tags.. then break out the windows and water pipes .
I'm pushing for prison terms for vomet and beave ... along with drug test for the remander ...
cool it's about time the tagger's go to prison ..... you want to be a punk now you can be once your in prison .....
Stan Mobley’s and Dave MacDonald’s lawsuit against the graffiti vandals is a good start, but they need to go a step further. They need to file restraining orders against the vandals. If they continue putting their tags on their property, the restraining orders allow them to call the police and get arrest warrants for vandalism and trespassing.
zedsmith this is for you son .....
I don't live at home with mom and dad .
I do more then my part to make my neighborhood a safer place to live . unlike you .
I have proof that the tagger's are nothing but white drug useing trash like the rat name matt who died of a drug overdose who at one time lived in my neighborhood and did over 5k dollars damage to a neighbors home .. This person will be at court asking for ALL taggers to get prison time .I have pic's to prove my point about your friends .... why don't you come to court and find out ? oh thats right you don't own a car .
pfff you look like a snuff dipper or have a dick in your mouth ........ but will say little beav was crying in court the other day ...... from what I saw of him he is a short little fuck who was crying in his ugly ass mom arms ..... I made hard eye contact and the little boy could not make eye contact to any of us ....... But zed if I did know you you would be my bitch this much I know .whats your tag name ? I know that you are a toy tagger .
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