Main Street Salt Lake City woke up today not only to the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States but also to find someone had spray-painted a murderous instruction on the windows of a long-empty store between 300 and 400 South Main.

A crime scene tech from SLCPD was on site around 11:15 a.m. taking pictures.

With Donald Trump officially president, what charges such an incitement would receive are unclear.

Salt Lake City Police Department's Detective Richard Chipping said a KUTV employee had called it in around 10:30 a.m. Their offices are directly across the street from the graffiti, the garish bright colors of which are difficult to miss.

"It definitely can be considered as a threat," Detective Chipping says. A case has been opened and officers are investigating, he added.

Graffiti  The PD has notified a company that removes graffiti of the two-window instruction and Chipping anticipated it would be removed soon.

Five years ago or so, the city installed a camera several doors down from the one-time store to monitor street activity, but Chipping didn't know if that was still working or accessible to the department in terms of identifying the perpetrator.