defacer

Nix laughs at the similarity between his astonishment that the man who tampered with the BLM signs resembled a pious church elder, and mine that the person who had gone to so much trouble to protect the banner was, like its defacer, “a 60-year-old White man. … We’ve all been filled with stereotypes.”

And the Virgin Defacer: Many storefronts have a Virgin of Guadalupe painted for safety purposes or mystical purposes to protect their business, and this guy, this Virgin Defacer, was going around graffitiing over their faces.

But in recalling that column, I had an idea for what might be a suitable punishment for the manatee defacer.

“We got together to capture Daniel the Defacer,” she told me.

It's an interesting conundrum, since by his own admission Monson too is something of a defacer, but his discomfort with the Defacer's vandalism causes him to back away.