At first, Oye Owolewa was annoyed, but not too concerned, when he noticed this blue spray paint on his front door.

But then he walked outside, looked down and saw the letters “FU” spray painted on his front porch.

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"That's when I saw the full display of the letters and the cursing,” Owolewa said.

Owolewa is running for a D.C. Council at-large seat, and he currently serves as the District’s shadow representative — an unpaid position voted for by District residents to advocate for D-C statehood. So he's someone who's known publicly, but he says he isn’t sure why someone would target him.

"I've been here for about seven years. and nothing like this has ever happened,” he said. "[…] If you notice in this neighborhood, all

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