A racist street artist so warped in his weird obsession with hate decided to vandalize Denver street signs with offensive remarks towards President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Black Americans and immigrants.
He admits to defacing Chicago signs during the Democratic National Convention and vows to continue on.
Sabo said he was motivated to post the signs because of reports that a Venezuelan gang forced the closure of an apartment complex in Aurora. The City of Aurora and Aurora Police have said the closure was not due to gang activity but rather years of neglect by a landlord now facing charges for neglect of the property.
The signs, discovered attached to existing signage along Colfax in Denver and Aurora, read “Kamala’s Illegals” and “Blacks Must Sit At The Back Of The Bus. Kamala’s Migrants Sit In The Front.”
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis responded, saying in part, “There is no room for hate in our state.”
The signs were first discovered by RTD drivers around 5 a.m. Thursday.
A Facebook post by Sabo included photos of the signs with a caption reading, in part, “I’m not going to lie to you, it was a scary night, but saying the Lord’s Prayer while working help (sic) a lot.”
RTD said similar signs were recently posted in Chicago and the agency was “connecting with other transit agencies across the country to assess the magnitude of the coordinated racist activity.”
Sabo also took credit for the racist signage in Chicago.
“I put up a few in Chicago during the DNC and I have plans for another set to go up some place else, which will no doubt bring the police to my door,” Sabo posted on Facebook two days prior to the signs going up in Denver. Another post indicates Sabo affixed the signs outside a fried chicken restaurant near the Democratic National Convention.
“I saw Black observers shocked when they saw this,” he wrote.
Sabo’s website includes photos of racist signs posted outside the Colorado Capitol in March 2024.
In a YouTube livestream on Wednesday, prior to the posting of the signs on Colfax, Sabo complained about Venezuelans and other Latinos, and used an ethnic slur for the Latino journalist who covered the racist signs posted outside the Capitol and the closure of the apartment complex in Aurora. He listed specific Latino nationalities he would use as “target practice” during a conflict.
“If a civil war breaks out and the f---ing Guatemalans and Ecuadorians are like coming over the fence and stuff like that, it is straight up target practice,” Sabo said.
Sabo had a foray into mainstream Republican politics in 2016, when his art promoting then-presidential candidate Ted Cruz was sold on the campaign’s website before being pulled after Sabo’s history of racist comments surfaced. On Wednesday’s livestream, Sabo said, “I’m a Republican. I’ve always been a Republican.”
Prior to Sabo’s admission to 9NEWS, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston told 9NEWS on Thursday that the city would use surveillance video to find the perpetrators behind the racist signage.
“It’s fear that people want to propagate for political purposes,” Johnston said. “There’s no place in our city for that.”
Sabo is like Ben Garrison. Talented but twisted.
Sabo's first work that received mainstream attention was in May 2014, where he put up posters attacking Democratic politician and then-candidate for governor of Texas Wendy Davis, who held a thirteen-hour-long filibuster to block Senate Bill 5 (a measure which included more restrictive abortion regulations for Texas) a year prior. The posters feature mostly-naked Barbie dolls with a plastic baby in their belly areas and Davis' face plastered on, with the caption: "Hollywood welcomes Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis."
During the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Sabo targeted Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party with posters (most of which were themed to Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, a 2016 political docudrama created by American conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza) being placed at local bus stops.
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