Dozens of swastikas were painted on a playground in a predominantly Jewish area of Brooklyn, New York, in two separate incidents this week, prompting a hate crime probe, the New York Police Department said. Gov. Kathy Hochul on X called the vandalism “a depraved act of antisemitism,” which comes during an extended period of such threats to the city’s Jewish community. Officers responded on Monday to a call at Gravesend Park in the southwest Brooklyn neighbourhood of Borough Park, where they found about 16 swastikas painted in red on slides, walls and the ground. Then on Wednesday, police responded to...
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