Susan Collins calls the cops over polite abortion message chalked outside home

Susan Collins was ‘grateful to the Bangor police officers and the city public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property.’ Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

A Republican US senator called local police to investigate a pro-abortion rights – but otherwise harmless – message written in chalk in front of her home, according to authorities.

The Maine senator Susan Collins called officers last Saturday evening to complain about an anonymous message written in chalk on a sidewalk just outside her residence in Bangor that asked her to support abortion rights legislation, according to a police report that was obtained by the Guardian.