By Eric Levenson, August Phillips, CNN (CNN) — 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 neighborhood of Borough Park, where they found about 16 swastikas painted in red on slides, walls and...
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