Or being ripped down, according to the Jackson campaign Wednesday.

Remember those mayoral signs that Councilor Tito Jackson’s campaign posted across Boston in late June ?

The first word that his signs are allegedly being vandalized — trashed or removed — came from the mayoral candidate himself in a Facebook posting Tuesday evening that quoted the late poet Maya Angelou.

“You may shoot me with your words/You may cut me with your eyes/You may kill me with your hatefulness/But still, like air, I’ll rise,’’ Jackson posted.

Included in the post is a picture of a Jackson sign in the trash, next to black garbage bags.


“Still encouraged and inspired by the massive amounts of support even though my signs are now being torn down,’’ Jackson wrote in the post. “This sign was at 682 Columbia Rd for the past month and today was ripped down and put in a dumpster around the corner on Elder St.”

The campaign said more than two dozen of its 70-plus signs — measuring 4 feet by 8 feet — have been ripped down. (The Globe could not independently verify the number of signs posted or how many were removed. The Boston Police Department said it has so far not received any reports of downed signs.)

The campaign of Mayor Martin J. Walsh said it was first it has heard of the missing signs.

“Actions such as these have no place in the mayoral election,” spokeswoman Gabrielle Farrell said.

The councilor did not accuse anyone specifically of the alleged vandalism, but his campaign manager’s posting appeared to point the finger at the Walsh campaign.

TaShonda Vincent-Lee, Jackson’s campaign manager, took a shot at the incumbent in her Facebook posting Wednesday morning.

“Politics is a beast, and the incumbent doesn’t play fair,’’ Vincent-Lee wrote on Facebook. “They can tear down signs, but never our spirits!”


The Walsh campaign’s response did not directly address Vincent-Lee’s post.

In an interview, Vincent-Lee said that because there were no video cameras, she can’t definitively say who is to blame for the missing signs.

“Who else would do it?’’ she said, while refusing to name anyone.

She said the signs were posted on commercial and residential properties whose occupants were “excited to post them,” only to have them removed.

Jackson did not hesitate to use the occasion to rally for donation, telling supporters “that every penny counts” while asking them to help fund the replacement of the signs and other supplies.

Meghan E. Irons can be reached at meghan.irons@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @meghanirons.