Print this article Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens during his trial in Minneapolis, Minn., April 6, 2021 in this courtroom sketch.
(Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
California police have arrested three women accused of vandalizing the former home of a retired police officer with a pig’s head and blood smear last month after the officer testified on behalf of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial.
The Santa Rosa police department said that it appeared the “suspects in this vandalism were targeting” the retired officer, Barry Brodd, for his testimony, in which he said Chauvin was justified in his use of force. Brodd is no longer a California resident and has not lived in the home for years, so it “appears the victim was falsely targeted,” authorities said.
3 arrested in vandalism of Chauvin defense witness old home
May 12, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
FILE - In this early Saturday, April 17, 2021, file photo, a Santa Rosa downtown district maintenance worker cleans the Agraria hand sculpture vandalized with what appeared to be blood outside the Santa Rosa Plaza in Santa Rosa, Calif. Three women have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the one-time Northern California home of a former police officer who testified on behalf of the officer convicted of killing George Floyd by splashing pig blood on it and leaven a pig s head near the front porch. The women were also charged with smearing pig blood on the large hand statue in Santa Rosa Plaza and leaving a picture of a pig reading Oink Oink. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP, File)Kent Porter/AP
Skip to main content
Currently Reading
3 arrested for allegedly throwing bloody pig s head at previous home of Bay Area cop who testified in Derek Chauvin trial
FacebookTwitterEmail
1of2
Three Santa Rosa residents suspected of throwing a pig’s head and blood on the former home of a Santa Rosa police officer and defense witness in the Derrick Chauvin murder trial have been arrested and booked for felony vandalism, police said. The same night, vandals also threw suspected animal blood and left a sign with a picture of a pig on a statue at Santa Rosa Plaza.Courtesy Santa Rosa Police DepartmentShow MoreShow Less