St. Louis Police Hit a Church Sign — And Then Covered Their Tracks

When the Rev. Mark Miller discovered that the century-old welcome sign in front of his church had been destroyed last August, he initially assumed it was vandalism. It wouldn’t have been the first time Westminster Presbyterian Church was targeted. Just a year before, in fact, more than a dozen windows and a door on the church building in St. Louis’ Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood had been broken.