Police investigating potential hate crime after swastikas found on Brooklyn buildings

Wednesday, October 31, 2018
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police are investigating a potential hate crime after swastikas were discovered on several buildings in Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Officials say an unknown suspect used chalk to draw swastikas and a racial slur sometime between 9:30 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. onto a building on Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights.
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Two local residents reported the vandalism to police just before midnight.

Five other addresses also had similar chalk graffiti.

Police are treating the incidents as a potential bias crime.

Authorities say anti-Semitic crimes are up significantly compared to last year and make up half of the hate crime reported across the city.
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There have been no arrests.



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