Two teenagers had been arrested and charged after allegedly spray portray dozens of swastikas and different antisemitic language at a Brooklyn playground the place many Jewish kids play, in accordance with police.
A hate crime investigation was launched after practically 5 dozen of the hate symbols had been discovered painted on partitions, a courtroom and a slide at Gravesend Park in Borough Park late Wednesday morning. One wall noticeably had the phrases “Adolf Hitler” written on it, images confirmed.
Crews had been seen portray over the graffiti later within the day, however not earlier than the NYPD began investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.
The Anti-Defamation League emphasised that the swastikas had been painted in the identical park two days in a row. Police mentioned greater than a dozen swastikas had been found on the playground and handball courtroom in that incident.
On Thursday, two 15-year-old boys had been arrested in reference to the incidents. One was charged with aggravated harassment and prison mischief as a hate crime, whereas the opposite faces a number of counts of aggravated harassment.
“I’m sickened by this antisemitic vandalism …. Antisemitism has no place in our metropolis, and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish New Yorkers who had been focused,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned in a press release.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul known as it a “wicked act of antisemitism. In a kids’s playground the place our children ought to really feel secure and have enjoyable. There is no such thing as a excuse. There may be zero tolerance.”
Lawyer data for the 2 teen suspects was not instantly obtainable.
