Trump's Hollywood star smashed
A man with an axe destroyed Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday in a video protest over sexual misconduct allegations dogging the Republican presidential candidate.
The protester, dressed in city construction worker overalls, can be seen on footage posted to YouTube and several other websites hacking away the gold lettering and camera logo from the tribute.
Giving his name as James Otis, he calmly explains he is "terribly upset" with 70-year-old Trump, who vigorously denies claims by almost a dozen women that he groped or was sexually aggressive toward them.
The man told a local news agency he had originally intended to remove the entire star from the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard, but failed to do so. He was arrested ysterday.
This is not the first time Trump's Walk of Fame star has been targeted.
In July, a Los Angeles street artist built a tiny wall of wooden planks topped with barbed wire around it, in protest at Trump's campaign vow to build a wall on the Mexican border.
Last year, excrement was left on the star and someone drew a large yellow X over it. A swastika and a mute symbol were also drawn on the red tile earlier this year.
Liliana Preciado, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, told AFP the vandal had used both a pickaxe and sledgehammer on the star.
Walk of Fame stars are worth around $30,000, meaning anyone found to have destroyed one may find themself facing a felony charge.
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