Woman indicted for allegedly vandalizing World War II Memorial

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A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Kentucky woman on vandalism charges after she appeared to livestream herself defacing Washington, D.C.’s World War II Memorial.

Melissa Farris seemed to be a homeless woman in a questionable state of mind earlier this month when she appeared to film herself spraying pink and green graffiti on the memorial, painting “Clean hands Dirty $” on the inside of its Atlantic Pavilion, and filling the monument’s fountain with bubbly soap.

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