Six people committed felony vandalism by painting green hands on the Riverside Historic Courthouse in a protest, the Riverside District Attorney claims. Four of the six pleaded not guilty in an Oct. 6 arraignment.
The defendant’s lawyers and the abortion-rights activist group Rise 4 Abortion Rights, which planned the protest against the overturn of Roe v. Wade, have not yet returned calls for comment.
The DA’s office says defendants painted green handprints July 30 and July 9, on the outside of Riverside’s Historic Courthouse. Cleaning the handprints from the July 30 protest cost more than $13,000, and cleaning from the July 9 protest cost more than $4,000, the
