Man who defaced Boystown grade college with swastikas will get 4-year sentence

A South Loop man who defaced an “equality” signal exterior a Boystown elementary college with swastikas and slurs has been sentenced to 4 years in jail after pleading responsible to hate crime and institutional vandalism costs, in line with Prepare dinner County courtroom data.

Jarrod Barnes, 43, admitted to scrawling the Nazi symbols on signage at Nettlehorst Elementary College, 3252 North Broadway, in April 2024. Police stated he was heard saying, “educating youngsters to be f****ts [sic],” as he drew the graffiti.

Barnes was arrested shortly after the incident when officers ready for an proof technician noticed him throughout the road. A witness pointed him out to the police, who discovered 4 Sharpie markers in his possession.

Choose Anjana Hansen handed down the four-year sentence on Monday. With good conduct, it will likely be lowered to 2 years, and Barnes will obtain credit score for the 623 days he spent on digital monitoring. If he stays on the straight and slender, he needs to be leaving jail in simply over 100 days.

The hate-motivated vandalism drew condemnation from Ald. Bennett Lawson (forty fourth), who stated he was “horrified” by the graffiti.

“We have now no tolerance for anti-semitic, homophobic, or hateful incidents of any type, and I hope the Jewish group within the forty fourth Ward and throughout our metropolis know that I stand with them and their proper to reside with out worry in our neighborhood,” the freshman alderman wrote shortly after Barnes was arrested.