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A hooded figure was seen spraying the words ‘no whites’ on a wall outside a primary school.
A manhunt is underway after the person was spotted on grainy CCTV footage outside Shaw Hill Primary School in Birmingham during the early hours of Thursday morning.
Community figure Naveed Sadiq shared a TikTok video in which he says the graffiti has been used to stir up racial tensions.
He said in the video: ‘As you can see on this wall it says ‘no whites’. This is not something which we as a community tolerate.
‘I have reported it and the police will be coming down and we will be checking the CCTV to see whether the perpetrator of this message was from the white community (or) the Asian community.
‘You can see this individual approaching the wall. We can’t establish whether he’s from (the Asian) community or the white community.
‘The only thing we can establish is that somebody is trying to create racial tensions.
‘The police are now involved in this situation. You will be found, you will be charged and you will be prosecuted.
The hooded figure was spotted outside Shaw Hill Primary School in Birmingham during the early hours of Thursday morning (Picture: TikTok/navbeardedbeys)
‘This is not an isolated incident. This is one of many.
‘Everyone is welcome in Alum Rock.’
Similar graffiti has also been sprayed in other areas of the city each 200 metres from the school but there is no suggestion the same person is responsible for all three slogans.
It is not the first time similar graffiti has appeared in the same area (Picture: TikTok/navbeardedbeys)
A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: ‘We are investigating after graffiti was sprayed at locations around the Alum Rock area.
‘An investigation is under way to identify who is responsible, and we are carrying out CCTV enquiries.
‘We are in contact with the community and will be carrying out patrols in the area. We are working with the local authority to ensure the graffiti is promptly removed.’
A similar incident happened in 2017 when graffiti appeared in the same area that read ‘no whites allowed after 8pm’.
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