Campaign banners for Honolulu mayoral candidate Ben Cayetano prominently displayed at Cycle City motorcycle dealer on the Nimitz Highway were hit by bullets sometime in the past few days, the campaign and news reports said.

The banners might have been hit with as many as eight bullets, according to this story in Hawaii Reporter. The first bullet hole was discovered Friday and others after that.

Here’s the Cayetano campaign’s press release about the incident, emailed to reporters on Saturday.

We were extremely shocked and disappointed to learn today that one or more individuals have fired numerous gunshots at my campaign banners placed at the Cycle City motorcycle dealership near Honolulu International Airport.

This is a direct attempt to stifle our right and the owner’s right of free speech. Today, that right to free speech was not only infringed upon, but was done so in a way that was criminal and extremely dangerous to all employees and patrons at Cycle City.

There is simply no place for this kind of violence in a political campaign in Hawaii or anywhere else in the country.  The Cayetano campaign has established a reward of $5,000 and encourages anyone who has information about this incident to please call the police or crime stoppers.