Minneapolis mayoral hopeful says office was vandalized

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.”

Minneapolis police acknowledged to MPR News that a report on the incident had been