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Swastika scrawlings unnerve three US cities
Swastika scrawlings unnerve three US cities
POSTED 10:35 AM, FEBRUARY 5, 2017, BY CNNWIRE
Police are investigating a flurry of swastika vandalism in three major U.S. cities.
Chicago Police released a surveillance video Saturday that shows a man smashing the front window of a synagogue and placing swastikas on the front door.
In the video, the suspect pulls up to the synagogue curb in a dark colored SUV just after midnight, gets out of the vehicle, places the stickers on the front door and then breaks the glass with a metal object. He then gets back in the car and flees the scene.
The man is wearing dark clothing and a dark head mask, police said.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
“The Chicago Jewish community will not be intimidated by anti-Semitic attacks on a house of worship,” American Jewish Committee Director Amy Stoken said in a statement to CNN.
“I have had it with this behavior”
Campus police at Rice University in Houston are investigating the swastika vandalism of the school’s William Marsh Rice statue.
The university reported that a swastika was drawn on the base of the iconic statue in the academic quad Friday night. The vandalism also included unidentified “words” according to a Rice statement sent to CNN.
“I have had it with this behavior…We are smarter, we are resolute and we outnumber the hatemongers by far,” University Dean John Hutchinson said in the statement.
“We will not let hate win”
It was not a typical Saturday night getting on the subway in New York City. One man, Gregory Locke, observed “a Swastika on every advertisement and every window” on a train.
Locke’s Facebook post and pictures of the defacement has since gone viral, and even warranted the attention of Chelsea Clinton who tweeted the post.
“We will not let hate win,” Clinton said.
Passengers were stunned by the acts of hate and one person on the train asked for hand sanitizer which was used to help erase all the swastikas written with a Sharpie, Locke said in his post.
Commuters remove anti-Semitic vandalism from Manhattan train
Straphangers work together to remove swastikas, anti-Semitic messages from Manhattan train
Passengers got to work removing several anti-Semitic messages on a Manhattan 1 train.
(ALEX TRAUTWIG/GETTY IMAGES)
NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, February 5, 2017, 5:32 AM
Straphangers teamed up to wipe away anti-Semitic graffiti after finding the offensive messages scribbled all over a Manhattan 1 train on Saturday.
The commuters used hand sanitizer to erase the vandal's dirty work.
"The train was silent as everyone stared at each other, uncomfortable and unsure what to do," wrote Gregory Locke in a viral Facebook post recalling the revolutionary cleanup.
"One guy got up and said, 'Hand sanitizer gets rid of sharpie. We need alcohol,' " Locke added.
The Daily News independently verified that a generous amount of hand sanitizer containing at least 70% ethyl alcohol does help in removing permanent marker from some plastic surfaces.
The witness said travelers reached for their stash of the potent liquid and dissolved a number of swastikas scrawled on subway maps and door windows. At least one message had declared, "Jews belong in the oven."
The vandalism comes within a week of the White House purposely omitting Jewish victims from a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Locke disputed a fellow straphanger's remark that the graffiti was evidence of "Trump's America."
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"No sir, it's not. Not tonight and not ever. Not as long as stubborn New Yorkers have anything to say about it."
A man responded to Locke’s post on Facebook and said he spotted a similarly written graffiti — on the same train — shortly after the November election.
"They’ve got to catch this animal," wrote James Pincow.
The message he saw celebrated Trump’s election victory.
"Finally we have a real man in the white house, a white man," it read. The menace signed off with a swastika as well.
Swastika scrawlings unnerve three US cities
POSTED 10:35 AM, FEBRUARY 5, 2017, BY CNNWIRE
Police are investigating a flurry of swastika vandalism in three major U.S. cities.
Chicago Police released a surveillance video Saturday that shows a man smashing the front window of a synagogue and placing swastikas on the front door.
In the video, the suspect pulls up to the synagogue curb in a dark colored SUV just after midnight, gets out of the vehicle, places the stickers on the front door and then breaks the glass with a metal object. He then gets back in the car and flees the scene.
The man is wearing dark clothing and a dark head mask, police said.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
“The Chicago Jewish community will not be intimidated by anti-Semitic attacks on a house of worship,” American Jewish Committee Director Amy Stoken said in a statement to CNN.
“I have had it with this behavior”
Campus police at Rice University in Houston are investigating the swastika vandalism of the school’s William Marsh Rice statue.
The university reported that a swastika was drawn on the base of the iconic statue in the academic quad Friday night. The vandalism also included unidentified “words” according to a Rice statement sent to CNN.
“I have had it with this behavior…We are smarter, we are resolute and we outnumber the hatemongers by far,” University Dean John Hutchinson said in the statement.
“We will not let hate win”
It was not a typical Saturday night getting on the subway in New York City. One man, Gregory Locke, observed “a Swastika on every advertisement and every window” on a train.
Locke’s Facebook post and pictures of the defacement has since gone viral, and even warranted the attention of Chelsea Clinton who tweeted the post.
“We will not let hate win,” Clinton said.
Passengers were stunned by the acts of hate and one person on the train asked for hand sanitizer which was used to help erase all the swastikas written with a Sharpie, Locke said in his post.
Commuters remove anti-Semitic vandalism from Manhattan train
Straphangers work together to remove swastikas, anti-Semitic messages from Manhattan train
Passengers got to work removing several anti-Semitic messages on a Manhattan 1 train.
(ALEX TRAUTWIG/GETTY IMAGES)
NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, February 5, 2017, 5:32 AM
Straphangers teamed up to wipe away anti-Semitic graffiti after finding the offensive messages scribbled all over a Manhattan 1 train on Saturday.
The commuters used hand sanitizer to erase the vandal's dirty work.
"The train was silent as everyone stared at each other, uncomfortable and unsure what to do," wrote Gregory Locke in a viral Facebook post recalling the revolutionary cleanup.
"One guy got up and said, 'Hand sanitizer gets rid of sharpie. We need alcohol,' " Locke added.
The Daily News independently verified that a generous amount of hand sanitizer containing at least 70% ethyl alcohol does help in removing permanent marker from some plastic surfaces.
The witness said travelers reached for their stash of the potent liquid and dissolved a number of swastikas scrawled on subway maps and door windows. At least one message had declared, "Jews belong in the oven."
The vandalism comes within a week of the White House purposely omitting Jewish victims from a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Locke disputed a fellow straphanger's remark that the graffiti was evidence of "Trump's America."
Sean Spicer defends White House statement after omitting Jews
"No sir, it's not. Not tonight and not ever. Not as long as stubborn New Yorkers have anything to say about it."
A man responded to Locke’s post on Facebook and said he spotted a similarly written graffiti — on the same train — shortly after the November election.
"They’ve got to catch this animal," wrote James Pincow.
The message he saw celebrated Trump’s election victory.
"Finally we have a real man in the white house, a white man," it read. The menace signed off with a swastika as well.
LOL @ resurgence....its some dumb kid scribbling with a marker on a train....people acting like it was a Neo Nazi parade with thousands of skinheads
