Hateful graffiti — together with a swastika and profanities towards a number of ethnic teams — was discovered scrawled on the wall inside an NYU library in downtown Brooklyn this week, cops mentioned.
The messages, written in pen on the wall of the Bern Dibner Library at 4 MetroTech Heart, included “F–okay Jews” and “F–okay Indians,” based on a photograph posted on Instagram by an on-campus Jewish group.
The vile scribblings additionally included anti-black messages, police mentioned.
A 53-year-old girl noticed the disturbing vandalism and reported it to police round 10 a.m. Wednesday, cops mentioned.
Fountain Walker, vice chairman for world campus security at NYU, condemned the graffiti and mentioned the NYPD deemed the incident a hate crime, based on Washington Sq. Information, the college’s scholar paper.
“The abhorrent graffiti included hateful rhetoric directed at Blacks, hateful rhetoric directed at Indians and hateful antisemitic rhetoric,” Walker mentioned.
“Our Division of Campus Security, along with our Title VI coordinator, is vigorously investigating this incident.”
These accountable might be topic to “the total weight” of NYU’s disciplinary actions, Walker mentioned.
