Thief strikes Milwaukee community garden [Video]

JUNE 1ST. WELL. THIEVES TARGETED A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN MILWAUKEE’S HARAMBEE NEIGHBORHOOD. POLICE SAY SOMEONE STOLE GARDENING EQUIPMENT WORTH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM THE HEART LOVE PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN THAT’S AT MLK AND RING AS 12 NEWS NICK BOHR REPORTS, ORGANIZERS ARE HEARTBROKEN AT THE DISCOVERY. FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, HEART LOVE PLACES COMMUNITY GARDEN HAS BEEN A CHERISHED RESPITE AND EDUCATIONAL SPACE IN THE HARAMBEE NEIGHBORHOOD, RIGHT ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DRIVE. SO WE HAVE A WHITE PEPPER, WE HAVE MINTS. WE DO HAVE ECHINACEA. BUT THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, PORTIA WHIPPS, WEDNESDAY FOUND THEIR PEACE GARDEN DISRUPTED AS WE CAME UP, WE NOTICED THAT THE LOCKS WERE BROKEN. AND I’M LIKE, WAIT, HOLD ON, YOU KNOW, SO IT WAS A SHOCK. SOMEONE BROKE IN AND TOOK ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT. HEART LOVE PLACE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VIOLA REMBERT SAYS THEIR MOWER EDGER, WEED WHACKER AND ROTOTILLER VANISHED. THOUSANDS …