The Philadelphia GOP wants the city to fire an ascot-wearing, wine-sipping attorney allegedly involved in the anti-Trump, spray-painting vandalism of a Chestnut Hill grocery store, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Watch the surveillance video above, released by police. It shows two men ambling along a stretch of Germantown Avenue, one like an upscale model straight out of GQ magazine, complete with a glass of wine, and the other hooded and spray painting "F*ck Trump" on the wall of a newly constructed grocery store. The wine-sipping sophisticate captures it on his cellphone before both men casually exit the scene.
The estimated damage is between $3,000 and $10,000.
First Deputy City Solicitor Craig Straw confirmed that the model-wannabe happens to be Assistant City Solicitor Duncan Lloyd, 32, who has worked for the Law Department since 2011.
"We do not condone this type of behavior from our employees," Straw said. "To my knowledge, Mr. Lloyd has already contacted the Philadelphia police and is cooperating with them. We will decide on a course of action once we obtain more information about the investigation."
According to his LinkedIn page, Lloyd attended Germantown Friends School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University's Beasley School of Law. He makes $63,207 a year, representing the city mostly in federal and state discrimination lawsuits. Of his job, Lloyd wrote, "As a result of these responsibilities, I hear the craziest stories - ones regularly driven by the unreasonable mores of lust, anger, passion, and envy."
Now Lloyd himself is at the center of a crazy story.
Joe DeFelice, executive director of the Philadelphia Republican Party, promptly demanded Lloyd's dismissal in a rather hilarious statement:
If the image of an upper-middle class city attorney clad in a blazer and sipping wine while vandalizing an upscale grocery store with an anti-Trump message strikes you as perhaps the most bourgeois sight imaginable, that’s because it is. Nothing can better represent the hysterical pearl-clutching of the ‘progressive’ elite in response to this earth-shattering election, when residents of Chestnut Hill and similar neighborhoods across the country discovered – gasp – that other people have a voice too. The assistant city solicitor in question had ostensibly taken the law into his own hands, since a democratic election didn’t yield his preferred outcome.
“For somebody with extensive legal training to feel entitled to vandalize a newly opened super-market strikes us at the Philadelphia Republican Party as an astonishing feat of idiocy. Did the extra glass of Shiraz give him some sort of delusional confidence that there are no cameras on Germantown Ave? The taxpayers should be entrusting exactly none of our faith into this man. He should be fired from our city’s law department immediately.
This isn't the only instance of anti-Trump vandalism in Philly. As the Inquirer notes,
Since Election Day, pro- and anti-Trump graffiti have been reported throughout the city. In early November, spray-painted swastikas, racist graffiti, and references to President-elect Donald Trump and Nazi Germany appeared in South Philadelphia. Anti-Trump graffiti have been reported on bus shelters and on the exterior wall of City Hall, where "Not My President" was spray-painted and removed Nov. 12.
Mayor Kenney has denounced the destruction of property, which mirrors incidents nationwide.



